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Melissa Barnes; Gloria Quiñones; Emily Berger – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
There is increasing pressure on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings to align their practices and values to that of schools, with the notion that a quality education in ECEC consists of providing care whilst also ensuring strong learning outcomes. This paper employs the constructs of structural and process quality to theorise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
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Sims, Margaret; Calder, Pamela; Moloney, Mary; Rothe, Antje; Rogers, Marg; Doan, Laura; Kakana, Domna; Georgiadou, Sofia – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to examine the initial policies developed by Australian, Canadian, English, German, Greek and Irish governments to limit the spread of the virus. This has revealed governments' conceptualisation of the early childhood sector and its workforce. This paper argues that neoliberal ideology and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Bryant, Lisa – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
Almost every part of human society have been impacted by COVID-19 and it has exposed our world's economic and social fault lines. How each country cared for their youngest members rapidly became obvious as one of those fault lines. Many countries had inadequate early education and care systems that quickly started to buckle under the impact of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Child Care, Early Childhood Education