Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 3 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 4 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 8 |
Descriptor
Source
| Springer | 2 |
| Bulgarian Comparative… | 1 |
| Child Care in Practice | 1 |
| European Journal of Education | 1 |
| Eurydice | 1 |
| Irish Educational Studies | 1 |
| Mercator European Research… | 1 |
| Policy Futures in Education | 1 |
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 4 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
| Books | 3 |
| Collected Works - General | 2 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Preschool Education | 9 |
| Early Childhood Education | 7 |
| Adult Education | 2 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
| Secondary Education | 2 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| High Schools | 1 |
Audience
| Policymakers | 1 |
| Researchers | 1 |
| Students | 1 |
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| Ireland | 9 |
| Canada | 3 |
| United States | 3 |
| Australia | 2 |
| China | 2 |
| Finland | 2 |
| Germany | 2 |
| Russia | 2 |
| Turkey | 2 |
| Armenia | 1 |
| Bolivia | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkBoyd, Wendy, Ed.; Garvis, Susanne, Ed. – Springer, 2021
This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
Schwartz, Mila, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Acquisition, Child Development
Peer reviewedArndt, Sonja; Smith, Kylie; Urban, Mathias; Ellegaard, Thomas; Blue Swadener, Beth; Murray, Colette – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Problematic policy constructions of the purpose of education implicate professional identities and working conditions of professionals working with the youngest children. This paper builds on our earlier writing, to contest teacher professional identities in Australia, Ireland, Denmark and the United States of America, to illustrate the crucial…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Professional Identity, Preschool Teachers, Work Environment
Download full textÓ Murchú, Helen, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2016
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements, and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects, such as the…
Descriptors: Irish, Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
Murray, Colette – European Journal of Education, 2012
This article discusses recent policy developments in Europe regarding Roma and Traveller integration and Early Childhood Provision. After a long history of oppression, Roma issues have recently become prominent on the EU policy agenda. The article discusses how these relate to developments in other areas of policy: the European children's rights…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Justice, Social Isolation, Preschool Education
Doyle, Orla; Logue, Caitriona; McNamara, Kelly A. – Child Care in Practice, 2011
This study examined the factors associated with childcare staff members' readiness to implement quality standards in early childhood settings in Ireland. To coincide with a new government policy that provides every three-year-old child with access to a free preschool year, a framework designed to improve the quality of early childhood care and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
Kernan, Margaret; O'Kane, Mary – Irish Educational Studies, 2006
The development of a system of regulation in early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Ireland was a slow process. Some decades passed between initial calls for regulation and the actual implementation of standards in 1997, reflecting the delay and inaction that has characterised ECCE policy implementation in general in Ireland. The present…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, National Standards
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
Eurydice, 2004
The national contributions contained in this paper and on the Eurydice website formed the basis for the comparative study on the integration at school of immigrant children in Europe. Each contribution has exactly the same structure with four main sections entitled as follows: (1) National definitions and demographic context of immigration; (2)…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
