Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID-19 boosts growth in language and executive function. [PDF]
Infant Child Dev, 2021 High-quality, centre-based education and care during the early years benefits cognitive development, especially in children from disadvantaged backgrounds. During the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns, access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) was disrupted.
Davies C +5 more
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Mathematics and higher-order thinking in early childhood education and care (ECEC)
Nordisk Barnehageforskning, 2023 This article investigates the perspectives of Norwegian early childhood educators on mathematics and higher-order thinking. Thematic analysis of the connection between mathematics and children’s higher-order thinking skills was performed based on semi ...
Enrico Pollarolo +3 more
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Associations of individual factors and early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres characteristics with preschoolers' BMI in Germany. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 AbstractBackgroundThe number of obese children is rising worldwide. Many studies have investigated single determinants of children’s body mass index (BMI), yet studies measuring determinants at different potential levels of influence are sparse. The aim of this study is to investigate the independent role of parental socioeconomic position (SEP ...
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Beyond gender binaries: pedagogies and practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC) [PDF]
Early Years, 2020 This special issue brings together a group of articles exploring the possibilities for gender transformation that exist within early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings in an international...
Yuwei Xu, Jo Warin, Martin Robb
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Possibilities and challenges in sustained capacity-building in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions: ECEC leaders’ perspectives [PDF]
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020 This paper investigates early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions’ opportunities to build a learning organization and master future innovations by focusing on core components, implemen...
Omdal, Heidi, Roland, Pål
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Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, 2023 This research investigates how consulting early childhood special education teachers (ECSETs) perceived teamwork in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers.
Samuli Ranta +3 more
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ECNU Review of Education, 2022 Purpose The new Finnish National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care (2018) strongly highlights pedagogical knowledge and practice, demanding teachers to develop their pedagogical thinking, evaluation, judgment, and operating culture ...
Anitta Melasalmi +2 more
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Characteristics of high-quality early childhood education and care: a study from Australia
Frontiers in Education, 2023 The early childhood environment influences a young child's growth, wellbeing, and development, and the young child's environment determines lifelong outcomes.
Alicia Phillips, Wendy Boyd
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Meta-thematic analysis of quality in early childhood education and care
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has drawn the attention of researchers and practitioners due to its correlation with positive individual, societal, and economic results.
Mehmet Sağlam +5 more
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Education Sciences, 2022 This research is an integrative literature review regarding the variety of university-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) centre models.
Meri Pihanperä +2 more
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