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Direct linkSílvia Barros; Vera Coelho; Olga Wyslowska; Efthymia Penderi; Helena Taelman; Sara Barros Araújo; Nadine Correia; Urszula Markowska-Manista; Konstantinos Petrogiannis; Anneleen Boderé; Manuela Pessanha; Cristiana Guimarães; Cecília Aguiar – Early Education and Development, 2024
Participation in educational settings is a universal right of every child, consigned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This right encompasses the need to protect and encourage young children's active participation and decision-making in early childhood education and care. Research Findings: This qualitative study,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Childrens Rights, Children
Birbili, Maria; Hedges, Helen – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Curriculum policy and enactment in early childhood education is a political phenomenon that plays out in particular cultural contexts. Comparative lenses to curriculum articulate locally constructed and implicit knowledge to external audiences. In doing so, global commonalities and tensions may become explicit. This paper interrogates curricular…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Documentation, Curriculum
Download full textKalogerakis, Panagiotis; Tsatsaroni, Anna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
This study focuses on the debate surrounding global policies and practices related to the sector of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), utilizing the Greek policy context as an example. Drawing on the critical education policy studies literature, this paper interrogates the complex concepts of quality and autonomy, which are core in the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Economic Factors, Early Childhood Education
van Trijp, Catharina P. J.; Broekhuizen, Martine L.; Moser, Thomas; Barata, M. Clara; Aguiar, Cecília – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Parents play a vital role in identifying children's needs for support and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) features that support children's well-being. This study examined parental perspectives on features of ECEC that foster young children's well-being under and above the age of 3 years by interviewing 359 parents across nine European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Joana Cadima; Tiago Ferreira; Carolina Guedes; Diana Alves; Catarina Grande; Teresa Leal; Filipe Piedade; Ana Lemos; Andri Agathokleous; Vicky Charalambous; Charalambos Vrasidas; Demos Michael; Manuela Ciucurel; Georgeta Chirlesan; Bogdan Marinescu; Delia Duminica; Anastasia Vatou; Maria Tsitiridou-Evangelou; Evridiki Zachopoulou; Vasilis Grammatikopoulos – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Professional Development (PD) can be a powerful lever for improving the quality of teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and teachers' feelings of support and competence. However, there is a dearth of studies examining different formats of PD and their links with workplace features. The present study aims to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Tentolouris, Filippos – Curriculum Journal, 2021
The goal of this article is to explore the conceptualisations of writing in the curricula and the teachers' guides of Greek preschool education (4-6 years of age). Ivanic's framework of the six discourses of writing (the skills discourse, the creativity discourse, the process discourse, the genre discourse, the social practices discourse and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Writing Instruction, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
Vasiliki Vasilaki – Online Submission, 2024
The current study explores the impact of visual arts education on early childhood, highlighting its role in enhancing creativity, imagination, and emotional expression in pre-school children. It explores the perspectives of pre-school teachers on the importance of visual arts in children's development and the challenges they face when integrating…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Education, Educational Policy
Tentolouris, Filippos – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
The official policy documents of the Greek preschool education adopt a functional perspective of writing (i.e., writing for real communicative purposes) which signals an attempt to align the national language policy with the communicative language policy of the European Union. In this article, the consistency of this alignment is examined by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Young Children
Warren, Jane; Soukakou, Elena P.; Forster, John; Ng, Lai-Thin; Nteropoulou-Nterou, Evdoxia – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2021
Although international research has accumulated significant evidence on inclusive practices and their benefits for children, how this translates into early childhood settings is often unsatisfactory within and across countries. Against the background of general acceptance of the principles incorporated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Practices, Preschool Education
Catarina L. Araújo; Cecília Aguiar; Lígia Monteiro – Educational Media International, 2023
This article is the result of work carried out within the scope of Erasmus+ project Kit@: Media competency training for professionals in day-care centres and comparable institutions in rural areas of Europe. Its main objective is to describe ECE systems, curriculum guidelines, pre-service teacher training curricula and teacher profiles related to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Birbili, Maria; Myrovali, Alexandra – Education Inquiry, 2020
In this paper, we explore how professional and policy contexts can mediate early childhood teachers' relationship with the official curriculum. Using their assessment practices as an impetus for discussion, we probed 28 Greek kindergarten teachers to talk about their engagement with the prescribed curriculum and explain how they construct its…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, National Curriculum, Educational Policy, Curriculum Implementation
Rentzou, Konstanntina; Daglas, Georgios – Global Education Review, 2018
Greece is one of the many countries, which still utilize a split Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system. In fact, this dichotomy characterizes not only preschool programs, but also higher education institutions which train pre-service ECEC educators. Recently, Greek government's Organization for ECEC organized an open debate for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
Androusou, Alexandra; Iakovou, Maria – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
The aim of this paper is to present an action research project focusing on refugee children's integration to the formal Greek education system as it relates to their mothers' Greek language learning. Drawing on the interrelation between formal and non-formal education, this project took place at the Open Reception facility of Eleonas in Athens and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Greek, College Students
Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Although Greece has a dichotomous system both in terms of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and in terms of ECEC workers' preparation programmes, in 2016 Greek government's Organization for ECEC organized an open colloquy about the adoption of a 'Unified National Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care', causing a heated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Fyssa, Aristea; Vlachou, Anastasia – Journal of Early Intervention, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of the practices that Greek teachers use to support the inclusion of children with disabilities in general preschools. Fifty-two preschool units for children between 4 and 6 years of age participated in this study. Data were collected through systematic observation with the use of the Inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Inclusion
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