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Direct linkSimon M. Hay; Harriet J. Vermeer; Ruben G. Fukkink; Harold T. Nefs – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: A growing number of stakeholders in early childhood education (ECE) rely on self-assessment to assess and improve the quality of ECE. In this systematic review, we investigated the reliability and validity of self-assessment in ECE, summarizing findings from 27 publications. We meta-analytically synthesized findings from 25…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Journal Articles
Lai, Yuk Ching – Educational Review, 2020
Studies on parental views and experiences of the integrated programme implemented in mainstream early childhood settings for children with disabilities are dominated by the perspectives of mothers and teaching personnel. Additionally, most of these studies are largely from Western countries. This hermeneutic phenomenological study attempts to…
Descriptors: Fathers, Child Care Centers, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
Xu, Yuwei – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
This paper discusses whether practitioners' gender subjectivities influence pedagogies and practices in early years education and care (EYEC) settings and whether an increase of men's participation can improve gender diversity in EYEC. It draws on poststructuralist theories, understanding gender as the product/outcome of the social formation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
Lai, Yuk Ching; Gill, Judith – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Initially developed from policies implemented under British rule, the integrated programme for children with disabilities has not been widely publicised in the context of early childhood education in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Local communities have responded differently to the integrated programme implemented in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Lee, Frances Lai Mui; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Barker, Katrina; Tracey, Danielle; Fan, Jesmond C. M. – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2015
In this study the authors aimed to examine the differentiability of 5 factors that preschool teachers may perceive as essential for successful implementation of inclusive education in regular classrooms. The 5 hypothetically influential factors were teamwork, curriculum, school support, government support, and stakeholders' attitudes. Teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Early Childhood Education
Lai, Yuk Ching; Gill, Judith – Educational Review, 2014
The integration of children with disabilities in mainstream early childhood settings is a common practice in many developed and developing countries world-wide. A number of key points have been raised concerning such integration, including the increased attention to civil education about the rights of persons with disabilities, training for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Disabilities, Children
Li, Hui; Wong, Ngai Chun Margaret – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2008
This study investigated how a set of newly developed indicators of early learning and teaching by the government, which was based on western ideology of child learning, was implemented in a Chinese context like Hong Kong. Twelve early childhood settings of 5747 children and 284 staff volunteered to implement the indicators within two years and the…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Professional Development
Dongping, Yang, Ed.; Chunqing, Chai, Ed.; Yinnian, Zhu, Ed. – BRILL, 2009
China's education system has grown increasingly complex, creating the need for an annual critical review of the education system by China's top scholars. The "Blue Book of Education," as it is known in Chinese, has gained a reputation for offering the most penetrating perspective in China on educational reform and development. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Yearbooks, Educational Change
Lee, Kenneth Siu Woo; Na, Anna Yeung On; Yee, Wong Shuk – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Hong Kong's most recent education reform proposal is the "Consultation Document of the Working Party on Harmonisation of Pre-primary Services" ("Consultation Document".) This examines the feasibility of combining kindergarten and childcare centres and having one single body regulating them. It has stimulated great responses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Consultation Programs, Position Papers
