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Quality in Home-Based Child Care for Under-Two-Year Old Children in Aotearoa New Zealand: Conceptualising Quality from Stakeholder Perspectives
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Layland, Judy; Smith, Anne B. – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2015
Recent policy reports have raised concerns about quality education and care for under 2-year-olds attending home-based early childhood and care (HBEC) services, an issue that has received minimal research attention in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article explores what is meant by "quality" in HBEC for children under two using an ecological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
Quality of Child Care Using the Environment Rating Scales: A Meta-Analysis of International Studies
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Vermeer, Harriet J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Cárcamo, Rodrigo A.; Harrison, Linda J. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
The current study provides a systematic examination of child care quality around the globe, using the Environment Rating Scales (ERS). Additional goals of this study are to examine associations between ERS process quality and structural features (group size, caregiver-child ratio) that underpin quality and between ERS and more proximal aspects of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality, Rating Scales
The Influence of Culture in Infant-Toddler Child Care Settings
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Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences
Infants, Family Day Care and the Politics of Belonging
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Stratigos, Tina; Bradley, Ben; Sumsion, Jennifer – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
Belonging has long been conceptualised as a fundamental human need, essential for the good health of individuals and communities. In relation to young children, belonging may be linked to their developing sense of identity, as well as the way they perceive and respond to others. Belonging is emerging as an important aspect of contemporary early…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Joining the Tots: Visual Research Tools to Connect Families and Community in Early Childhood Education
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Duncan, Judith; One, Sarah Te – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
Over a two-year teacher-researcher project in New Zealand we used a mosaic of research methods (Clark, 2010) to capture the perspectives of staff, parents and children. As a team of teachers and academic researchers, we recorded and documented reconceptualised pedagogical practices that included active adult participation in a cluster of early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Care Centers, Child Care
A Culture of Tenderness: Teachers' Socialisation Practices in Group Care Settings
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Brennan, Margaret – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This paper discusses insights arising from a recent doctoral study in a New Zealand early childhood setting. I was interested in how young children learn to be part of the group and drawing on a socio-cultural framework carried out a qualitative case study to investigate the enculturation of young children into childcare settings. The particular…
Descriptors: Young Children, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Child Care