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Direct linkTina Eckstein-Madry; Bernhard Piskernik; Thilo Schmidt; Wilfried Smidt – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
Leadership in early childhood education and care (ECEC) undoubtedly plays a crucial role in preschool quality, yet it is seldom discussed in studies. This study aims to identify various leadership profiles of preschool leaders using a person-centered approach and predict these profiles based on leaders' characteristics and the preschools they…
Descriptors: Preschools, Administrator Characteristics, School Administration, Educational Quality
Franka Baron; Anja Linberg; Simone Lehrl – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The present study examines the quality and domains of teacher-toddler interactions and associations with structural characteristics using data from 95 German early childcare settings. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported a two-factor structure of interaction quality assessed by the CLASS Toddler: emotional and behavioural…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Teacher Student Relationship
Boyd, 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
Eckhardt, Andrea G.; Egert, Franziska – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
Over the last few decades, research has consistently shown that process quality in child care centers and family child care varies substantially, but is mostly at a mediocre level. Based on the NUBBEK sample (National Study on Education, Learning and Upbringing in Early Childhood), an expanded model of process quality tests the influence of…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Educational Quality, Preschool Teachers, Child Caregivers
Tobin, Joseph – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
"Children Crossing Borders" was an ambitious study of the intersection of im/migration and early childhood education in five countries: England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. This article looks back at this study a decade later, presenting the main findings and proposing suggestions about how in the contemporary climate…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Early Childhood Education, Student Needs
Camehl, Georg F.; Schober, Pia S.; Spiess, C. Katharina – Education Economics, 2018
Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). We compare quality perceptions by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Parents, Preschool Teachers
Eckhardt, Andrea G.; Egert, Franziska – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
International findings indicate only moderate childcare quality and results revealed significant differences between regions. So far, this difference cannot be explained by structural characteristics. Based on the National Study on Education, Learning and Upbringing in Early Childhood (NUBBEK) sample of 215 lead teachers, the influence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Smidt, Wilfried; Rossbach, Hans-Günther – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
A large body of research has examined the quality of educational processes in preschools, but it has usually been studied at the group level. Thus, there is a lack of research on the quality of educational processes as experienced by individual children. Therefore, this study investigated the quality of educational processes in preschools at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Strohmer, Janina; Mischo, Christoph – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
In this study, the development of prospective early childhood teachers' competencies during teacher education is investigated. In detail, early childhood teachers' beliefs about the relevance of competencies, their competence-related self-concept and objective measures of knowledge regarding language and language development were assessed.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Self Concept, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes
Richter, David; Lehrl, Simone; Weinert, Sabine – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The present paper was written under the auspices of the interdisciplinary research group "Educational Processes, Competence Development, and Selection Decisions at Preschool and Primary School Age (BiKS)" (FOR 543), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The surveys were conceptualised and supervised as part of the developmental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Developmental Psychology, Financial Support, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Changing Practitioner Role in Early Childhood Centres: Multiple Shifts and Contradictory Forces.
Peer reviewedOberhuemer, Pamela; Colberg-Schrader, Hedi – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1999
Explores role of early-childhood practitioners against background of shifts in social context and sociopolitical climate of early-childhood education and care in Germany. Maintains that practitioners are links in the process of repositioning early-childhood centers in quality debate. Discusses need for newly defined role combining family-centered…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers
Download full textPopov, 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
