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Direct linkVusi Msiza – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
In South Africa, the recruitment and retention of men to teach in the foundation phase (Grade "R"-3) has gained national attention. In a patriarchal society such as South Africa, where such jobs are regarded as the purview of women, men's perceptions of gender and gender equality in schools might explain their existence at this level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education
Fenech, Marianne; Wong, Sandie; Boyd, Wendy; Gibson, Megan; Watt, Helen; Richardson, Paul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
A well-qualified, well-paid, stable workforce with high psychological and emotional wellbeing is critical to the provision of quality early childhood education and care, yet workforce shortages and high turnover persist in Australia and internationally. This paper uses ecological theory to conceptualise and make sense of findings from research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Sharon McKinlay; Karen Thorpe; Chrystal Whiteford; Laura Bentley; Susan Irvine – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
The significant shortfall of staff in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce identifies an imperative not only to recruit educators but to support ongoing qualifications and career advancement of those within. Indeed, "Shaping Our Future," Australia's workforce strategy for 2022-2031 identifies qualifications and career…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Career Development, Labor Force Development
Athanasios Koutsoklenis; Vassilios Papadimitriou – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Parallel support is a Greek type of special education provision aiming at providing additional support to students identified with special educational needs and/or disability in mainstream classrooms. Drawing from quantitative data for the school-year 2018-2019 this paper presents findings on certain characteristics of primary and pre-primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
Download full textGriffiths, Veronica; Hall, Erin; Hartley, Derek; Hohaia-Rollinson, Fleur; Malcolm, Jenny; Purdue, Kerry; Tate, Alice – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand is a bicultural nation with a superdiverse society, a feature which presents opportunities and challenges for our early childhood education (ECE) sector (Chan & Ritchie, 2020). A primary challenge within the sector is achieving, in accordance with the partnership, protection and participation principles of te Tiriti o…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Early Childhood Teachers, Foreign Countries
Belinda Downey; Will Letts; Leanne Gibbs; Sharynne McLeod – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Global early childhood education workforce shortages have highlighted the importance of recruitment and retention. The development of effective leadership has not been a retention policy focus even though effective leadership has been identified as an important driver for improving working conditions and supporting educator retention. The aim of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Global Approach, Labor Needs, Early Childhood Teachers
Vilches, Silvia L.; Pighini, Maria J.; Stewart, Mary J.; Rossa-Roccor, Verena; McDaniel, Beth – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2023
Rural regions struggle to retain early intervention (EI), special education (SE), and early childhood education (ECE) supports for children with developmental delay and/or disability, yet there is little guidance to prepare pre-service students for rural practice. This exploratory scoping review of rural EI/SE/ECE practice in the United States and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Special Education
Christine Pascal; Tony Bertram; Sally Cave; Tina Bruce; Helen Lyndon; Sue Bennett; Anne Denham – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This paper presents a narrative case study of an innovative Froebelian approach to professional development, implemented in a large Nursery School and Family Centre in southern England undertaken as part of an extended programme of research and development funded by the Froebel Trust from 2021-2024 which was trans-national, including two early…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods
Okeke, Chinedu Ifedi; Nyanhoto, Enock – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In the study reported on here we employed the interpretivist qualitative approach to explore the recruitment and retention of male educators in preschool centres. Purposive sampling was used to select 2 preschool owners, 2 principals, 4 preschool educators and 2 male educators in the Foundation Phase. Data were obtained by in-depth interviewing…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Males, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Nutbrown, Cathy – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
In the context of an ongoing policy crisis in relation to the qualifications of the early childhood workforce in England, this paper first rehearses the context and long overdue need for reform before presenting a framework for career structure and professional early childhood education qualifications in England. This framework is designed to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education
Heikkilä, Mia – Education Inquiry, 2019
The focus of this study is to examine seven municipalities that, in different ways, are working to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study is to identify different ways of working to recruit more men to work in preschools and to effect a change in the gender imbalance among the working staff in preschools. Relational agency is…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Males
Tintoré, Mireia; Gairín, Joaquín; Cabral, Ilidia; Matías Alves, José; Serrão Cunha, Rosário – Cogent Education, 2022
The organisation of K-18 schools and the management function are similar in Portugal and Spain, although, in recent years, Portugal has surpassed Spain's educational results. Based on the last international reports, this article compares the educational systems of both countries considering some variables related to the management model: (i) the…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Comparative Education, Institutional Autonomy
Jerrim, John – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
England is currently facing a crisis in the recruitment and retention of teachers, with one-in-three newly qualified staff leaving the profession within five years of completing their training. This paper investigates several different aspects of the lives of recently qualified teachers in England, including their life satisfaction, mental health,…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Life Satisfaction, Teacher Qualifications
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Sutton Trust, 2021
In the 14 months that have passed since the closure of Britain's schools in March 2020, Britain's education system has faced an extraordinary challenge. The priority now should be to do everything possible to help young people bounce back, and to make sure none are left behind in this process. That is why social mobility and fairness must be put…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
