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Building a community-wide early learning system: East Yakima at baseline Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative, part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the East Yakima community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the East Yakima Early Learning Initiative planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for East Yakima Early Learning Initiative implementation |
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Building a community-wide early learning system: White Center at baseline Baseline findings from a multi-year implementation evaluation, one of four components in an overall evaluation, of the White Center Early Learning Initiative (WCELI), part of a 10-year strategy to improve children's school readiness in Washington State, that examined the White Center community, the availability and quality of child care services there, the WCELI planning process, and the community's goals and expectations for WCELI implementation |
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The child care trilemma: How moral orientations influence the field A study of the moral discourse arising from the struggle to balance quality, affordability, and availability in child care choice and provision, based on interviews with an administrator, a parent, and a teacher, all with connections to a university-affiliated child care center in a rural Midwestern town |
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The development of early childhood education in rural areas in China A description of the early care and education sector in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China, describing child care options, policies, funding, curriculum, administration, and teacher qualifications and status, and a case history of the development of a child care center in Gao Cun Village from 1981 through the 2000’s |
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Discourses on quality care: The Investigating 'Quality' project and the Canadian experience A description of a global search for approaches to child care and early education to provide options for an approach that works in the multicultural society of British Columbia, Canada |
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Early childhood education in Ghana: The policy hiatus A qualitative study of pedagogy, compliance with national policy, and the influence of national culture at 5 government and 5 private early childhood settings Ga West district of greater Accra |
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Early childhood policy review in Nepal An examination of early childhood development services and policies in Nepal |
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The effects of teaching a methods course on early childhood preservice teachers’ beliefs Assessments of the beliefs of 78 preservice teachers on constructivist and instructive teaching methods before and after a course on the topic |
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Examining early childhood teachers perceptions of ICT A study of the availability and use of information and communication technology in the classroom and teachers’ ICT-related skills and professional development endeavors, based on the questionnaire responses of 7 teachers and the interview responses of a small number of teachers and children at a child care center and a kindergarten in Wellington |
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ICT in early childhood education: Perceptions, potential and reality An exploration of the benefits of and barriers to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) with young children, based on the questionnaire responses of 334 respondents from kindergartens, playcenters, kohanga reo, and early care and education centers in 5 districts of New Zealand |
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In search of quality: A local and global perspective Descriptions of two child care sites in the same district of Beijing: a gated suburban wealthy preschool and a playgroup at a public market serving the children of poor internal-migrant families, and a discussion of the appropriateness of quality measures in these two settings |
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Markets and democratic experimentalism: Two models for early childhood education and care A definition and comparison of two theoretical approaches, the market model and the model of democratic experimentalism, to understanding and providing early childhood education and care services |
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Pilot scheme for two year old children: Evaluation of outreach approaches A study of the design, management, and delivery of outreach strategies for targeting, identifying, and enrolling families in the Two Year Old pilot, which provides 38 weeks of part-time early education to disadvantaged two-year-old children in the United Kingdom, based on case studies of 6 sites |
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Provision of ECE services and parental perceptions: Results of the NZCER national survey of ECE services An examination of available early childhood education and care services, and an exploration of parental perceptions of available programs, based on a survey of 624 licensed early childhood directors and teachers and 650 parents in New Zealand |
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Skinner meets Piaget on the Reggio playground: Practical synthesis of applied behavior analysis and developmentally appropriate practice orientations An overview of a combined-theory approach used by a child care center on a university campus, and a description of the application of this approach while helping a child develop social skills |
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Solving the puzzle: The gap in Minnesota's early care & education finance and governance structures A comparison of the early care and education system governance and finance structures in Minnesota to structures in other states, based on stakeholder interviews |
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Ten years after the pre-school reform: A national evaluation of the Swedish pre-school The second national evaluation, and a follow-up to the first national evaluation, of the preschool education system in Sweden in the years following policy reforms in 1998 that introduced a national preschool curriculum and transferred preschool to the education system from the welfare and family policy system |
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