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Direct linkMatsui, Gota – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
Using action research, this study examined the professional development of teachers through the reflections that kindergarten teachers obtain from children's voices and the relevance between the working environment and teachers' reflection at teacher conferences in Japan. Four teachers participated in the study. Data sources included teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Young Children, Childrens Attitudes
Barrable, Alexia – Learning Environments Research, 2020
In the present paper, I explore some of the concrete manifestation of autonomy support in natural childcare and early childhood education settings, under the organising framework of self-determination theory. More specifically, I present the ways in which early childhood educators shape the space of natural settings and use the affordances of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Space Utilization, Early Childhood Teachers
Sollars, Valerie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
In the Maltese context, the nation-wide roll-out of State kindergarten provision in the mid-70s and the rapid increase in childcare services for under three-year-olds over the last two decades were initiatives driven by efforts to entice women to the labour market. National research to determine short and long-term effects which these services…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Parent Attitudes
Download full textAustralian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2020
This occasional paper is the seventh in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). It explores the quality of children's education and care services based on the socio-economic status of the area in which they are situated. The Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD) is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged Youth
Tulve, Nicolle S.; Jones, Paul A.; McCurdy, Thomas; Croghan, Carry W. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
The objectives of this study were to: (a) determine if very young children will wear an accelerometer for relatively long periods of time and comply with the protocol for its use; (b) evaluate how well a caregiver can estimate the activity level of his/her infant or toddler when completing an exposure-oriented time activity diary; and (c) compare…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Statistical Analysis, Diaries
Child Development, 2004
Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, a prospective, longitudinal study involving 933 children, were used to examine relations between cumulative participation in 5 types of out-of-school care (before- and after-school programs, extracurricular activities, sitters, fathers, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Extracurricular Activities, Child Care, After School Programs
