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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 +8 more
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British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Adults' mental state language (MSL), referring to and labelling cognitions, emotions and desires, is regarded as a key input to children's social‐cognitive development. The Maternal Mental State Input Inventory (MMSII) offers a vignette‐based approach to investigating adults' preferences for using MSL and elaborated language.
Callyn Farrell +2 more
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Early childhood education and care : parent conceptions of ECEC services and choice of services [PDF]
, 2005 This study details a phenomenographic and grounded theory investigation aimed at generating new knowledge of an under-researched area, namely that of parental choice of early childhood education and care services. Given the complexity and range of choice
Noble, Karen
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Education SciencesChildhood 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 +2 more
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Social and Emotional Functions of Institutional Touch in the Relational Care of Young Children
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study reports results concerning close embodied practices, involving touch, in early childhood care settings in Sweden during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The data—video recordings of everyday practices in contexts of childcare—were collected during various phases of the pandemic. The study demonstrates a broad range of uses of touch, by adults
Asta Cekaite, Madeleine Wirzén
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Child care and early childhood education in Australia [PDF]
, 2015 Presents information about the types of child care used by children in Australia, highlighting how arrangements change as children grow, and how they vary for families of different characteristics. Summary Child care and early childhood education hold a
Jennifer Baxter
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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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Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
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As this report shows, the presence or non-presence of the Swedish language in Swedish ECEC is one of the key questions in the integration-preschool debate, and a key argument for the measures taken to include children with a foreign background in preschool at the national level.
Lindgren, Anne-Li, Puskás, Tünde
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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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