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British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1979
Developed at the request of the Community Care Facilities Licensing Board, this document describes in detail the outcomes, in terms of student performance, of an early childhood education program for colleges and institutions in British Columbia, Canada. These competencies represent the organizational, evaluative, decision-making, and manipulative…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Child Caregivers, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development
Guernsey, Helena – 1971
Procedures for hiring teachers for preschool cooperatives are described. Resources for finding suitable teachers are city or State councils of parent cooperative preschools, newspapers, personal contact, and announcements at local meetings. A teacher application form should be sent to the applicant and returned before the personal interview.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cooperatives, Early Childhood Education, Employment Interviews

Rothenberg, Dianne – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1996
Presents abstracts of 10 documents and 11 journal articles representing recent research related to early childhood education, policy and educational provision in Canada, Italy, Latin America, Caribbean, Great Britain, Japan, Africa, Sweden, El Salvador, and Australia. Topics include child labor and basic education, culture and curriculum, social…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Day Care, Developed Nations, Developing Nations

Grela, Bernard G.; Illerbrun, David – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
A survey evaluated the satisfaction of 79 parents with the delivery of preschool speech-language services in a rural region of Canada. While parents were generally supportive of the services, they were less supportive of service convenience, parent support, and overall parent satisfaction. Intervention format received the lowest parent rating.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments
McClellan, Jim; Schlosser, Grace – 1992
This report presents the results of surveys of school jurisdictions, Early Childhood Services (ECS) private operators, and private school personnel across Alberta, Canada. The purpose of these surveys was to consolidate information on the relative incidence rates of students with special needs receiving education programs in Alberta. The report's…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Rate
Gammage, Philip – 1991
Research suggests that there has been no single, unidimensional, totally agreed-on shift in educational beliefs in Alberta and British Columbia between 1984 and 1990. Rather, several ideologies, research findings, and powerful political voices seem to have coalesced toward the end of the 1980s. The shift in ideas that resulted has been actively…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
National Day Care Information Centre, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1987
Reviewed are major findings of the National Day Care Study (1986), a study intended to present to Canadians a general overview of day care services in Canada. Brief descriptions of major findings concern the increase in day care spaces, age groups served by day care programs, sponsorship of day care centers, day care spaces by province, and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Age Differences, Children, Day Care Centers

Nash, Chris – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Describes a field study of kindergarteners which found 1,006 pupils conserved identity up to 8 months, and 693 pupils conserved identity and equivalence. Follow-up studies showed no relationship between kindergarten conservation abilities and grade 1 math skills, although grade 6 math performance correlated significantly with kindergarten…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Educational Research
2001
This report provides the framework for response to Nova Scotia's agreement with the government of Canada to invest in an early childhood development (ECD) strategy. The report begins with a list of guiding principles for child and family services. The major challenge for the ECD strategy is to identify the key areas of investment that will create…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Care, Delivery Systems, Disabilities

Lyon, Mary E.; Canning, Patricia M. – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Examined associations among day care center quality, selected structure variables, provincial legislation and funding, rural/urban location, and profit-seeking status across 48 centers in Canada. Found that average ratings of quality were between acceptable and good. Ratios and group size were acceptable. Found differences between for-profit and…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Effective Schools Research

Streelasky, Jodi – Canadian Children, 2001
A pre-kindergarten program serving poor urban Aboriginal families in Saskatchewan, Canada, used parent-created literacy boxes based on a topic of interest to their child and themselves. It was found that the literacy box experiment encouraged families to come into the classroom to read with their child, allowed the teacher to become more…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Indigenous Populations
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1995
This handbook is written specifically for Early Childhood Services (ECS) operators in Alberta (Canada) to apply for Program Unit Funding. It is also designed to enhance the understanding of how assistance is provided to ECS children with severe disabilities by teachers, special needs assistants, parents, and supporting agency personnel. ECS…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Expenditure per Student, Financial Support
Towell, Bonita Rae; Tsuji, Gerry K. – 1990
This report is presented in three parts. Part 1 consists of synopses of the child care situation in 13 countries. For each country, the child care environment, including the philosophy and historical background of child care, appropriate legislation, and types of child care services provided, are discussed. School-age child care programs for…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Family Day Care
Frankel, Elaine B.; McKay, Donald – 1990
The paper describes application of an interactive model to providing services for young children with special needs being mainstreamed in community day care programs. In this model, the resource consultant coordinates service delivery in interactions with: (1) the child and family; (2) early childhood educators; and (3) resource specialists. The…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Community Programs, Consultation Programs
Lewis, Norah – 1974
Early Childhood Education Programs are an integral and accepted part of the education of almost all American Indian children in Canada, with one or more programs being available on most reserves. Most of the programs were organized at the request of parents and local school committees. Nursery School or K1 Programs involve 4-year-olds. In many…
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Community Support, Early Childhood Education