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Direct linkEva Pölzl-Stefanec; Mailina Barta; Catherine Walter-Laager – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In recent years, there has been considerable investment at the European Union level in expanding early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilities. In line with this quantitative substantial initiative, research and social policies are increasingly focusing on the quality of such facilities. High quality depends, among other things, on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Blended Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Nadja Thoma; Verena Platzgummer – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Linguistic minority spaces tend to have a long history of language-ideological struggles that are often fought on the terrain of education, which is further complexified in the light of more recent migration. The northernmost Italian province of South Tyrol is such a space, in which German-language preschools are increasingly attended by children…
Descriptors: German, Italian, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Ornaghi, Veronica; Conte, Elisabetta; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
We investigated early-childhood teachers' emotion socialization practices via a multi-method study that combined self-report measures and structured observational situations at day care centre. Eighty-nine teachers (M[subscript age] = 38.29 years; SD = 11.06) completed two questionnaires about their emotion socialization style and beliefs about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Socialization, Emotional Response
Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences
Majorano, Marinella; Corsano, Paola; Triffoni, Giulia – Child Care in Practice, 2015
The aim of the present study is to assess the role of educators' interventions and communications in peer conflicts between preschoolers. Ninety-nine children (47 females and 52 males) aged from zero to three years were observed in seven Italian nurseries during free-play, mealtime and structured activity. Their interactions (verbal and non-verbal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Peer Relationship
Picchio, Mariacristina; Giovannini, Donatella; Mayer, Susanna; Musatti, Tullia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Systematic documentation and analysis of educational practice can be a powerful tool for continuous support to the professionalism of early childhood education practitioners. This paper discusses data from a three-year action-research initiative carried out by a research agency in collaboration with a network of Italian municipal "nido"…
Descriptors: Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Children, Educational Practices
Koch, Janice, Ed.; Irby, Beverly, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2005
In this volume, gender and schooling in the early years addresses a broad range of issues including, but not limited, to gender equity in education. We explore, for example, the complex world of play in Fromberg's chapter and are reminded that for young children, play involves issues of power and hierarchy in ways that parallel the role of gender…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Play, Females, Preschool Children
