1 to 3-year-old children in day care centres in Finland: An overview of eight doctoral dissertations
A comparative summary of 8 Finnish doctoral dissertations, published from 1994 through 2009, on center-based care for infants and toddlers
Literature Review
2009 childcare and early years provider survey
An overview of a comparison of characteristics--including characteristics of children served, provider income, and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care and early education provider organizations in eight sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, part-day providers, Sure Start children's centers, preschools, primary schools with only transition classes for four- and five-year-old children, and primary schools with both preschool and transition classes--in the United Kingdom
Fact Sheets & Briefs
2010 annual membership survey for the National Childminding Association (NCMA)
A study of English and Welsh family child care providers, including their business practices, pay and working conditions, participation in family child care networks and quality improvement initiatives, and qualifications and training, based on interviews with 1,001 randomly selected members of a national association of family child care providers
Reports & Papers
Accountability and quality in early childhood education: Perspectives from Asia
An introduction to a special issue of the journal Early Education and Development, focusing on the influence of accountability and quality rating efforts of select early education environments in Hong Kong, China, and India
Other
Accountability and quality in early childhood education: Perspectives from Asia [Special issue]
A special issue of the journal Early Education and Development, focusing on the influence of accountability and quality rating efforts of select early education environments in Hong Kong, China, and India
Other
Achievement of children in the early years foundation stage profile
Findings from an annual assessment of students achievement at the end of their participation in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), based on data for all children who attended the program from 2007 through 2009
Reports & Papers
Adult response to children's exploratory behaviours: An exploratory study
An examination of the potential responses to children’s exploratory behavior and the assumptions and rationale behind those responses, based on the responses of 19 preschool teachers and 14 parents to vignettes and interview questions
Reports & Papers
Affordability, accessibility, and accountability: Perceived impacts of the pre-primary education vouchers in Hong Kong
An investigation of the influence of the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme (PEVS) on the affordability, access, and accountability of kindergarten programs, based on responses to questionnaires from a random sample of 380 parents, principals, and teachers from 79 public and private kindergartens both eligible and ineligible to receive the PVES funding in Hong Kong
Reports & Papers
'Am I staying for lunch today?': A consultation project with 3 and 4 year olds to find out about their experience of the Free Entitlement
A summary of an examination of 3- and 4-year-old children's experiences of free, universal, part-time early education in England, based on a consultation with 58 children in 10 settings
Executive Summary
Analysis of communication skill and interpersonal problem solving in preschool trainees
A study of the relationship between communication skills and interpersonal problem solving skills of preschool teacher trainees, based on survey data from 453 preschool teacher trainees from Selcuk University in Konya, Turkey
Reports & Papers
An analysis of the effects of in-service teacher training on Turkish preschool teachers' attitudes towards inclusion
An examination of attitudes towards inclusion prior to and after an in-service training on children with special educational needs from a survey of 66 preschool teachers
Reports & Papers
'And hairdressers are quite seedy...’: The moral worth of childcare training
A qualitative study of learner identity creation through participation in the early child care coursework based on interviews with 42 early child care students in two Further Education colleges in Greater London in 2008 and 2009
Reports & Papers
Assessing inclusion quality in early learning and child care in Canada with the SpeciaLink Child Care Inclusion Practices Profile and Principles Scale
A study of the internal reliability and structural properties of the SpeciaLink Inclusion Principles Scale and the SpeciaLink Inclusion Practices Profile, two measures of inclusion quality, based on data collected in almost 600 classrooms in 216 child care centers and preschool programs in Canada
Reports & Papers
Assessing inclusion quality in early learning and child care in Canada with the SpeciaLink Child Care Inclusion Practices Profile and Principles Scale [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the internal reliability and structural properties of the SpeciaLink Inclusion Principles Scale and the SpeciaLink Inclusion Practices Profile, two measures of inclusion quality, based on data collected in almost 600 classrooms in 216 child care centers and preschool programs in Canada
Executive Summary
Assessing preschool number sense: Skills demonstrated by children prior to school entry
A study of the relationships between mathematics difficulties, receptive vocabulary, and mathematical skills, a second study of essential components of early number sense, and a third study of the relationship between receptive vocabulary and mathematics skills and both type of early childhood setting and gender for 176 children at preschools and child care centers in a socially inclusive urban area of Sydney, Australia
Reports & Papers
Assessing the quality of Portuguese child care programs for toddlers
A description of the quality of child care for children 1- through 3-years-old, based on data from 160 toddler classrooms in the district of Porto, Portugal
Reports & Papers
Assessment by interview and portfolio in a graduate school program
An investigation of interview panels as authentic assessment with 63 Graduate Diploma of Education (Early Years) preservice teachers at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia as part of their end of the semester assessment in their 1-year program
Reports & Papers
Associations among child care, family, and behavior outcomes in a nation-wide sample of preschool-aged children
A study of the relationships among child care choice, family characteristics, and child behaviors, based on a secondary analysis of data on 4,521 4- and 5-year-olds in Canada
Reports & Papers
Barney and breakfast: Messages about food and eating in preschool television shows and how they may impact the development of eating behaviours in children
An exploration of messages about food and diet in preschool television programming, based on a visual analysis of two or more episodes each of 10 randomly selected television shows from a television network that targets children aged two through five years old in Canada
Reports & Papers
Barriers to participation: The experiences of disadvantaged young children, their families and professionals in engaging with early childhood services
A study in disadvantaged communities in New South Wales, Australia, of children's and parents' experiences of participation in early childhood settings and parents' and early childhood workers' perspectives on barriers to accessing early childhood services, based on questionnaires and in-depth interviews with 101 parents, interviews with 60 children, and focus groups with 40 early childhood workers
Reports & Papers
Barriers to participation: The experiences of disadvantaged young children, their families and professionals in engaging with early childhood services [Executive summary]
A summary of a study in disadvantaged communities in New South Wales, Australia, of children's and parents' experiences of participation in early childhood settings and parents' and early childhood workers' perspectives on barriers to accessing early childhood services, based on questionnaires and in-depth interviews with 101 parents, interviews with 60 children, and focus groups with 40 early childhood workers
Executive Summary
Behaviour patterns in daily mother-child separations: Possible opportunities for stress reduction
An examination of mother-child, mother-child-caregiver, mother-caregiver and child-caregiver patterns of interaction processes of separation when mothers leave their infants in out-of-home group care, from videotapes and observations of 24 parent-infant dyads and child care personnel recruited from three child care centers in an urban area in central Israel
Reports & Papers
Being Professional?: Conceptualising early years professionalism in England
A qualitative study of professional identity development from 16 face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 8 early years professionals in northeast England in the fall of 2007
Reports & Papers
Blurring boundaries, distant companions: Non-kin female caregivers for children in colonial India (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
A historical account of servant and non-family child care in colonial Indian households, based on an analysis of selected writings primarily from Bengal
Reports & Papers
A 'break with tradition' in interwar teacher education
A historical study of Lillian de Lissaat, the first principal of Gypsy Hill Training College, the first nursery school teacher preparation program in Australia, between 1917 and 1947, and an historical study of the relationships between young women students' social worlds, teacher educators' understandings, teacher education curriculum, and the institutional culture of the college
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