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Wagner, Shannon L.; Forer, Barry; Cepeda, Ivan L.; Goelman, Hillel; Maggi, Stefania; D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Wessel, Julie; Hertzman, Clyde; Grunau, Ruth E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: Occupational stress for early childcare educators is an area of apparent understudy in the literature. The present study attempted to address this gap and provide some updated data regarding the experiences of this occupational group. Methods: Early childhood workers across a variety of early childhood education settings (N = 69)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Background, Coping, Job Satisfaction
Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna S.; Goelman, Hillel; Tougas, Jocelyne; LaGrange, Annette – 2000
Canadian experts in diverse fields as well as people concerned about social justice and cohesion have identified quality child care as a crucial component in addressing a variety of broad societal goals. This study explored the relationships between quality in Canadian family child care homes and: provider characteristics and attitudes about…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Goelman, Hillel; And Others – Family Relations, 1990
Examined relationships between quality of day-care program, level of cognitive stimulation in caregiver home, and social-emotional climate of caregiver's own family life. Data from 44 family day-care providers suggest relationship between level of cognitive stimulation and quality of day-care program and between quality of day-care and dynamics of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Family Environment, Family Life
Goelman, Hillel; Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna S.; LaGrange, Annette; Tougas, Jocelyne – 2000
Canadian experts in diverse fields as well as people concerned about social justice and cohesion have identified quality child care as a crucial component in addressing a variety of broad societal goals. This study explored the relationships between child care center quality and: center characteristics; teaching staff wages and working conditions;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers
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Goelman, Hillel; Pence, Alan R. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1985
This paper presents an ecological approach to the study of day care, addressing the interaction of such factors as the developmental needs of children, the role of family structure, and the impact of governmental funding and regulatory policies. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Environment
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Kershaw, Paul; Forer, Barry; Goelman, Hillel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2005
Research shows that stability is one component of quality child care. We investigate the understudied phenomenon of the stability of child-care facilities over time, focusing on the province of British Columbia, Canada. Although net figures show growth in the number of providers between 1997 and 2001, they obfuscate a dramatic level of closure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Caregivers, Child Care
Doherty, Gillian; Lero, Donna S.; Tougas, Jocelyne; LaGrange, Annette; Goelman, Hillel – 2001
Four Canadian provinces license or contract with family child care agencies, which in turn recruit and monitor child care providers. These family child care agencies have two primary roles: monitoring and supervising providers, and supplying their affiliated family child care providers with professional development opportunities and other types of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)