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Purposeful and Ethical Early Childhood Teacher: The Underlying Values Guiding Finnish Early Childhood Education [PDF]
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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An Integrative Literature Review of University-Based Early Childhood Education and Care Centres within Early Childhood Teacher Education Settings [PDF]
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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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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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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Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023 AbstractInternationally, professionalization has become a key policy strategy targeting quality improvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC), utilizing top-down managerial strategies including implementation of quality standards and increased workforce qualifications.
Susan Irvine +5 more
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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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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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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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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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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023 The marketisation and privatisation of welfare services such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) have been a global trend in recent decades.
Ville Ruutiainen +2 more
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