Aligning preschool and elementary school curricula through a collaborative professional development model
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Barriers to lone parents' employment: Looking beyond the obvious
A discussion of the role of neighborhood disadvantage and policies to increase access to child care and training in the transition to employment among single parents on welfare
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Beginning prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices: Supports and barriers to developmentally appropriate practices
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Building bridges and tearing down walls: Constructing an early childhood career ladder through University-Head Start collaboration
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Caregivers' beliefs about practice in infant child care programmes
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Care, paid work, and leisure: Rounding the triangle
A discussion of the distribution of paid work and child care responsibilities and the impact of employment and child care policies on gender equity in France and the United Kingdom.
Other
Changing women's lives: Child care policy in Ireland
A discussion of the growing role of women in the workforce, the changing social context of family life, and the on-going debate concerning state child care policies and funding in Ireland
Other
Childcare policy in the European states: Limits to convergence
A discussion of the variations in child care policies between member states of the European Union and barriers to the convergence of child care provision and policies between states
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The child's start in day care centre
An observational study of ten children's experiences during their first few months in child care
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Contested childhood: Diversity and change in Japanese preschools
An investigation into the religious, social, and political factors that shape Japanese preschools and an exploration of how the Japanese culture influences child rearing.
Other
Can starting summer-born children earlier at infant school improve their National Curriculum results?
An investigation of the effect of the length of schooling for children who were born later than their peers as compared with the effect of their age on their National Curriculum scores
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Early years educators in Finland and England: Issues of professionality
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The effect of child care subsidies: A critique of the Rosen Model
A critique of Sherwin Rosen’s model regarding Swedish child care subsidies, focusing on his overlooking the positive externalities and distributional impact of increasing the quality of child care through state subsidies
Other
Encouraging men to enter the field of child care: What can be done
A discussion of the obstacles to men working in child care centers
Other
Enthnicity, gender, age, SES, and activity type as factors contributing to early childhood preservice teachers' interactions with international and U.S. preschool children
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Family home care providers' and parents' beliefs and practices concerning mathematics with young children
Highlights of findings from three studies on the relationship between the beliefs and practices of parents and home care providers and early childhood environments, and children’s development of early numeracy skills
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Family Literacy Questionnaire
Instruments
From foster mothers to child care centers: A history of working mothers and child care in Sweden
A historical analysis of the child care arrangements of working mothers in Sweden’s modern history
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The implications of national policies in the United States, Brazil, El Salvador, and Peru on early childhood teacher education
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Malaysian parents' ideal and actual perceptions of pre-school education
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Match or mismatch: The perceptions of parents of nursery age children related to those of the children's main nursery workers
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Mothers' implicit theories of early literacy instruction: Implications for children's reading and writing
A survey of the beliefs of mothers on the instruction and acquisition of emergent literacy skills by children, based on a sample of 19 five- to six- year old children and their mothers from a southeastern city in the United States
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Passion, politics, and collaboration: Changing early childhood teacher preparation and certification
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Phonological awareness, peer nominations, and social competence among preschool children at risk for developing learning disabilities
An examination of the relations between phonological awareness skills and socioemotional competence in a sample of Israeli preschool children considered at risk for developing learning disabilities as compared with a sample of typically developing Israeli preschool children
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Pre-school education: Parents' preferences, knowledge and expectations
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