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Katrin Macha; Mathias Urban; Jan Lonnemann; Caroline Wronski; Frauke Hildebrandt – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
In this paper, we want to present research on children's perspectives in the context of participation. We emphasize that the survey of children's perspectives is a form of participation. We understand participation based on children's rights. We refer to the Lundy model ([2007]. "'Voice' Is Not Enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Childrens Rights, Childrens Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Rey-Guerra, Catalina; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Berry, Daniel; Kuger, Susanne; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Naerde, Ane; van Huizen, Thomas; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2023
Whether high quantities of center-based care cause behavior problems is a controversial question. Studies using covariate adjustment for selection factors have detected relations between center care and behavior problems, but studies with stronger internal validity less often find such evidence. We examined whether within-child changes in hours in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Time
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Viernickel, Susanne; Martin, Marie – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Social dimensions of the caregiving environment, like secure relationships to caregivers and high interactional classroom quality, are seen to directly or indirectly stimulate children's learning and development. However, little is known about the underlying processes, specifically with regard to the role of peers. To fill this gap we videotaped…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Social Experience, Early Childhood Education, Video Technology
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Elizabeth A. Shuey; Stéphanie Jamet – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
This study draws on data from TALIS Starting Strong 2018, an international survey of early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff and leaders, to examine the staff roles (leader, teacher, assistant, specialised staff, intern, other) that are included in ECEC centres in nine countries: Chile, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Staff Role, Foreign Countries
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Lattner, Katrin; Strehmel, Petra – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
This article investigates Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on ECEC leaders' perceptions of team leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of the team-related challenges ECEC leaders have been confronted with, how they have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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van Trijp, Catharina P. J.; Broekhuizen, Martine L.; Moser, Thomas; Barata, M. Clara; Aguiar, Cecília – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Parents play a vital role in identifying children's needs for support and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) features that support children's well-being. This study examined parental perspectives on features of ECEC that foster young children's well-being under and above the age of 3 years by interviewing 359 parents across nine European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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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
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Martin Brunner; Sophie E. Stallasch; Cordula Artelt; Oliver Lüdtke – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
There is a need for robust evidence about which educational interventions work in preschool to foster children's cognitive and socio-emotional learning (SEL) outcomes. Lab-based individually randomized experiments can develop and refine such interventions, and field-based randomized experiments (e.g., cluster randomized trials) evaluate their…
Descriptors: Preschools, Social Emotional Learning, Outcomes of Education, Cognitive Objectives
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Köksal, Özgün; Sodian, Beate – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Understanding that hypothesis testing is aimed at seeking information rather than producing desirable outcomes is indispensable for designing informative experiments. This study investigated the developmental course of information seeking compared to producing an effect in young children. In a between-subjects design, 4- to 6-year-olds (N = 109)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Seeking, Hypothesis Testing, Child Development
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Grosse, Gerlind; Simon, Antonia; Soemer, Alexander; Schönfeld, Romy; Barth, Stefanie; Linde, Nadine – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
How does teacher-child interaction quality in early child care and education settings influence the development of social-emotional skills in children at around two to three years of age? We measured the quality of interactions on the side of the child care teachers (N = 9, CLASS Toddler) and assessed self-regulatory skills through an individual…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Memory, Social Development
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Knauf, Helen – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
A normative demand placed on early childhood centres by political actors and education theorists is that they should promote participation by children. Numerous publications have set out recommendations for early childhood teachers on how to promote participation in their day-to-day activities. The present study considers the role of the…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Children
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Christoph Mischo; Katrin Wolstein; Svenja Peters – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Teachers' professional vision is the ability to notice and interpret classroom interactions and may be considered an aspect of a teacher's competence. Despite research on school teachers, little is known about this competence in early childhood teachers. In this study, the relation between early childhood teachers' professional vision and their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship
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Lohmann, Anne; Wulfekühler, Heidrun; Wiedebusch, Silvia; Hensen, Gregor – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Parents' attitudes towards inclusive education in day care facilities in the city and rural district of Osnabrueck in Germany were assessed by conducting a written survey (N = 809). In the survey, parents indicated their perceptions of advantages and risks of inclusion for children with and without special needs. The interviewed parents perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Inclusion, Child Care Centers
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Andrä, Markus – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
Based on videodata of play situations between children and professionals, a qualitative analysis of gender socialisation of boys in German EEC (Early Education and Care) institutions has been conducted. The theoretical and methodological framework of this research is an attempt to describe gender identity as an interactional phenomenon, which is…
Descriptors: Males, Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Catarina L. Araújo; Cecília Aguiar; Lígia Monteiro – Educational Media International, 2023
This article is the result of work carried out within the scope of Erasmus+ project Kit@: Media competency training for professionals in day-care centres and comparable institutions in rural areas of Europe. Its main objective is to describe ECE systems, curriculum guidelines, pre-service teacher training curricula and teacher profiles related to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
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