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Classifying Home-Based Child Care Providers: Validating a Typology of Providers' Beliefs and Self-Reported Practices
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Hooper, Alison – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Although home-based child care is a widely-used form of non-parental child care, relatively little is known about the home-based provider workforce and their beliefs and practices related to children and families. This study validates a previously identified typology of listed home-based child care providers (Hooper and Hallam, Early Child Res Q…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Beliefs, Child Care
Pedagogy with Babies: Perspectives of Eight Nursery Managers
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Elfer, Peter; Page, Jools – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The last 30 years have seen a significant increase in babies attending nursery, with corresponding questions about the aims and organisation of practice. Research broadly agrees on the importance of emotionally consistent, sensitive and responsive interactions between staff and babies. Policy objectives for nursery and expectations of parents and…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Care, Interaction, Caregiver Child Relationship
Learning and Language: Educarer-Child Interactions in Singapore Infant-Care Settings
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Lim, Cynthia; Lim, Sirene May-Yin – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
While there has been extensive research exploring the quality of caregiver-child interactions in programmes for preschool children, comparatively less international research has explored the nature of caregiver-child interactions in centre-based infant-care programmes. Nine caregivers in six Singapore infant-care settings were observed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship
Epistemological Beliefs in Child Care: Implications for Vocational Education
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Brownlee, J.; Boulton-Lewis, G.; Berthelsen, D. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: The quality of child care is of social and economic significance worldwide. The beliefs that child care workers hold about knowing and knowledge (epistemological beliefs) influence the quality of their professional work. However, attention to epistemological beliefs is rarely a focus in vocational education programmes. Aim: The aim of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Caregiver Attitudes, Beliefs, Epistemology
Childcare Workers' and Centre Directors' Beliefs about Infant Childcare Quality and Professional Training
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Brownlee, J.; Berthelsen, D.; Segaran, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
While there has been extensive research exploring quality in childcare programs for children older than three years, less attention has been directed to the nature of infants' experiences in centre-based childcare programs. In this study, six childcare workers and six centre directors located in centre-based childcare programs in metropolitan…
Descriptors: Infant Care, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Caregiver Training
Caregivers' Epistemological Beliefs in Toddler Programs.
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Berthelsen, Donna; Brownlee, Joanne; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
Examined the beliefs about knowing and learning among six toddler caregivers as well as their conceptions of good caregiving. Found that two caregivers held relativistic epistemological beliefs and four held multiplistic and mixed epistemological beliefs. The latter group lacked the same degree of reflectivity as the former group. Caregivers with…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Caregiver Attitudes, Child Care, Child Caregivers