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Improving quality of teaching and child development: A randomised controlled trial of the leadership for learning intervention in preschools

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionSubstantial research indicates that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) confers a wide range of benefits for children, yet quality in ECEC remains inconsistent.
Iram Siraj, Edward Melhuish, Steven J. Howard, Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett, Denise Kingston, Marc De Rosnay, Runke Huang, Julian Gardiner, Betty Luu   +8 more
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A new framework for data on public services. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) and compulsory education

, 2021
The purpose of this deliverable is to report on the development of a new framework for collecting good quality institutional comparative data on public services, using Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and primary and secondary education as pilot areas. Whereas comparative welfare state research has to an important extent focused on the income
Nieuwenhuis, Rense, Goedemé, Tim, Dalén, Pär, Delanghe, Heleen, Doctrinal, Laure, Nelson, Kenneth, Sirén, Sebastian, Penne, Tess   +7 more
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Quality of early childhood education and care in Japanese accredited nursery centers: A study using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3).

PLoS ONE, 2023
This study presents the first quantitative evaluation of the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Japan to make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge accumulated on ECEC in countries where research has been limited.
Keiko K Fujisawa, Taiyo Fukai, Makiko Nakamuro   +2 more
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What We Don’t Know Really Will Hurt Us: Examining Trauma Awareness Knowledge, Strategies, and Training in Ireland’s Early Childhood Education and Care Profession

Education Sciences
Childhood trauma can exert a negative influence in the lives of young children. Yet, while Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals are perfectly positioned to support children exposed to such trauma, extant research reports a scarcity of ...
Catherine Sheehan, Judith E. Butler, Cian O’Neill   +2 more
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The professionalization of early childhood education, care educators and pedagogical coordinators: a key issue of adult education

Formare, 2019
This paper focuses on the issue of in-service training of personnel involved in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), in light of the most recent European and Italian studies and regulations and in line with the principles of lifelong learning and ...
Clara Silva
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Access to and quality of early childhood education and care policies in Europe

IUL Research, 2021
European policy is moving from emphasising the need for childcare towards establishing every child’s right to quality early childhood education and care (ECEC).
Akvile Motiejunaite
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Governing early childhood education and care quality development among diverse private ECEC providers in Norway

Education Inquiry, 2023
ABSTRACTThis article sheds light on governance mechanisms at work when decentralised implementation of national educational and welfare policies encounters a heterogeneous sector of private service provider organisations. It illuminates how isomorphic pressure plays out at the interface between local governance and private providers’ organisational ...
Anne Sigrid Haugset, Håkon Finne
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Comparing Mathematics Early Years Education in Spain, Portugal and Slovenia

Mathematics, 2022
This work aims to examine how the learning of mathematics in early childhood is developed in different policies, particularly within the processes of formal education and care in early years institutions.
Ana Ancheta-Arrabal, Carlos Segura
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Early Childhood Education and Care Services, and Parents’ Work–Life Balance

Education Sciences
Parents’ work–life balance represents a major challenge, especially for those who have young children. The present article aims to identify the perceptions of parents relating to the purpose of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, care ...
Aniela Matei, Mihaela Ghența, Luise Mladen-Macovei   +2 more
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Serving families who face economic and related adversities: the ‘5 As’ of effective ECEC service delivery

Frontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionFamilies with young children who face economic and related adversities are the most likely group to miss out on the advantages of regular sustained participation in high quality early childhood education and care.
Jennifer Skattebol, Elizabeth Adamson, Megan Blaxland   +2 more
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