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Tajik, Mehrnaz; Singer, Elly – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
This paper discusses collaborative research between academics and practitioners to enhance the level of play engagement in nine groups of toddlers in The Netherlands. Researchers and pedagogic counsellors designed a structured experiment to test the effects of four pedagogical strategies: confronting the children with a rearranged activity corner;…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Play
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
This paper, based on interviews conducted for the "Early Childhood Oral History Project," draws on oral life-history interviews with 14 prominent early childhood researchers who have been active since the 1970s within diverse European countries. A common theme across the interviews is the key role that collaborative research between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Oral History, Researchers
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Singer, Elly – Childhood Education, 1996
First, explores the Dutch government's child care policy in relation to the views held by Dutch education professionals. Second, contrasts policy experts' views on child care with parents' existing needs. Suggests that government and professionals should start taking the realities of parents' and children's lives as a starting point while putting…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Child Rearing, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Singer, Elly – 1996
For too long, researchers and policy makers have considered themselves to be the only experts able to define quality in child care. That children, parents, and teachers have their own expertise in this area is often denied. This article explores the points of view of these three parties and attempts to demonstrate that researchers must be prepared…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Childhood Attitudes