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Purola, Karoliina; Kuusisto, Arniika – Cogent Education, 2021
This paper examines the ways in which parents talk about their participation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and the factors that, according to them, promote parental participation. Although parental participation has been studied to an extent as regards children's academic attainment, up-to-date knowledge on the broader phenomena…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Social Capital, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
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Lim, Sirene – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
In the field of early childhood education, play has become synonymous with curriculum but is sometimes viewed narrowly as a pedagogical tool to enhance child development. However, it is known from a range of multidisciplinary work that child-initiated and child-guided forms and contexts of playing can offer rich insight into diversity in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Music, Peer Relationship
Brandon Gantt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Preschools provide a method of early intervention to prepare children for school. Reggio Emilia (RE) curricular approach widely used for early childhood education that has not consistently shown a positive influence on cognitive, social, and emotional development of young children. It is also unknown whether those who participate in the RE…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education, Attitudes, Child Care Centers
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Sanni Kahila; T. Kuutti; J. Kahila; N. Sajaniemi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
Practicums as part of teacher education are important for teacher students' professional development. Co-operative teachers support students' learning during practicums, but in the early childhood education (ECE) context the work community of the ECE center is also seen as an essential part of the practicum environment. This study investigated ECE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Teachers
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Gerilyn Slicker; Christina Areizaga Barbieri; Jason T. Hustedt – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Families need access to early care and education programs, both to ensure parents' ability to work and support children's development. Subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) are a set of policies aimed at assisting families living in poverty with accessing early education. However, the number of early…
Descriptors: State Aid, Grants, Financial Policy, Educational Policy
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Nadia Di Martino – Childhood Education, 2024
Due to their pivotal role in developing quality teachers, student teacher placements have been considered a cornerstone of initial teacher education (ITE). International preservice teachers in Australia must simultaneously make sense of the local culture, adjust to new pedagogical practices at university, and negotiate the complex regulatory and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Christina M. Stephens; Danielle A. Crosby; Julia Mendez Smith – Grantee Submission, 2024
Center-based early care and education (ECE) is important for promoting positive early development and supporting families by providing child care so parents can work. However, the center-based supply varies substantially in terms of funding sources, indicators of quality, and services offered; and many families experience a lack of equitable…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Young Children
Boege, Sarah; Carson, Jess – Carsey School of Public Policy, 2023
In this brief, the authors explore how state-level decisions in New Hampshire and Vermont manifest in the early childhood education and care sector, through the lens of the interstate Upper Valley region. They demonstrate the significant differences in the reach and adequacy of child care financial assistance programs ("child care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Decision Making, State Action
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Martin Lytje; Atle Dyregrov; Minna Devatier Bergstrøm; Anita Fjaerestad; Linda Fisher-Hoyrem – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This article compares the institutional bereavements response systems available in Danish and Norwegian daycare institutions when encountering critical illness or death among attached families. Both countries' structured responses are developed around bereavement response plans that highlights the actions, which should be taken by institution…
Descriptors: Grief, Cross Cultural Studies, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Child Care Centers
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Nadja Thoma; Verena Platzgummer – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Linguistic minority spaces tend to have a long history of language-ideological struggles that are often fought on the terrain of education, which is further complexified in the light of more recent migration. The northernmost Italian province of South Tyrol is such a space, in which German-language preschools are increasingly attended by children…
Descriptors: German, Italian, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Kathrin Nystad; May Britt Drugli; Stian Lydersen; Håvard Horndalen Tveit; Ratib Lekhal; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Measuring toddlers' cortisol levels both in childcare and at home and their relation to child- and childcare-related factors may help to identify stress-inducing childcare practices and children who are more vulnerable to stress in childcare. Accordingly, toddlers' (n = 320, 51.2% female, mean age = 26.8 months) cortisol levels…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Family Environment, Child Care Centers, Physiology
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Meishar-Tal, Hagit; Forkosh-Baruch, A.; Levy, L.; Shenkar, T. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2022
In recent years, surveillance cameras have become common in the education system, in early childhood child-care centres as well as in preschools and schools. Public opinion regarding the usage of security cameras in early childhood institutions is constantly increasing due to a growing number of incidents exhibiting child abuse by caregivers.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, School Security, Child Care Centers, Child Safety
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Giordano, Keri; Goldberg, Ayal; Engelberg, Shira; O'Kane, Michael – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Children under five are expelled at high rates from early learning settings, yet little research discusses the relationship between program quality and expulsion. This study examined the relationship between program quality (accreditation, quality rating system participation, child:teacher ratios, suggesting programs are not a match, administrator…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Expulsion
Xue, Yange; Del Grosso, Patricia; Carlson, Barbara – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Partnerships between Early Head Start (EHS) programs and child care providers aim to increase access to high quality, comprehensive services that meet the needs of infants and toddlers from families with low incomes. Quality in early care and education matters. In prior research, high quality early care and education was associated with better…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Care Centers, Partnerships in Education, Early Intervention
Jackson, Barbara J.; Marvin, Christine A.; Encinger, Amy; Buchholz, Nicole; Zessin, Becky – Online Submission, 2022
Assessment of emerging literacy in young children is generally limited to either skill development in children over 3 years of age or the quality and context of young children's early literacy experiences. Although there has been promotion of their early literacy experiences, assessment of emerging pre-literacy behaviors in children younger than 3…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Development, Psychometrics
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