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Aline Cole-Albäck; Chris Pascal; Tony Bertram – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
The "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" is one of the most widely-ratified human rights treaties, yet the visibility of children in the early years, in the mandatory government reports to the "UN Committee on the Rights of the Child" and in the Committee's concluding observations to States Parties, is relatively low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, Treaties
Marilyn Fleer – Research in Science Education, 2024
In recent years, limited research attention has been directed to what happens in science education before the age of 3 years. We present the findings of a study that followed 13 infant-toddlers aged 0.1-2.2 years (mean 1.8 years) and their educators from a childcare centre. Under the conditions of an educational experiment, the results of our…
Descriptors: Science Education, Toddlers, Infants, Early Childhood Education
Nancy File Ed.; Nancy E. Barbour Ed.; Andrew J. Stremmel Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
Designed to spark an interchange of ideas, this book presents early childhood education as a nuanced, shifting, and complex field. Readers will bear witness to several decades of the lived experiences of influential leaders engaged in conversation about seven major topics: systems of early care and education, diversity and children's rights,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Preschool Curriculum, Play
Fukkink, Ruben G. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
In an exploratory, intensive case study, we investigated the well-being of young children (0-4 years) with a time-sampling design. The total sample included 940 individual observations for 30 children during four consecutive weeks. Data collection involved external coding of videotaped episodes and caregiver- and parent-reported measures.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Care, Psychological Patterns, Play
Recchia, Susan L.; Shin, Minsun; Loizou, Eleni – Teachers College Press, 2023
Learn how to create and nurture communities of care for diverse children, families, and practitioners through responsive practice. In this text, the social and emotional worlds of babies and toddlers, their peers, and their caregivers come to life in the everyday moments of infant-toddler care and education. The authors show infants and toddlers…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Interpersonal Relationship, Play
Dinkel, Danae; Snyder, Kailey; Patterson, Tyler; Warehime, Shane; Kuhn, Miriam; Wisneski, Debora – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Unstructured outdoor play is important for children's development. The present study examined infants' and toddlers' physical and social unstructured outdoor play behaviors within childcare centers. Children's outdoor play behaviors were video recorded at two centers (A&B) and assessed using a modified version of the Observational System for…
Descriptors: Play, Infants, Toddlers, Recreational Activities
Vandenbroeck, Michel; Slot, Pauline; Hulpia, Hester – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Child care quality in general, and caregiver-child interactions in particular, are salient predictors of children's outcomes. While the importance of process quality is well known, the complex relations between structural quality and process quality are far less researched in family child care, compared to centre based child care. Flanders shows…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Environment, Educational Quality, Classroom Environment
Musgrave, Jackie; Levy, Rachael – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
This article sheds light on how chronic health conditions impact upon concepts of inclusion in children's early childhood education and care in England; it draws upon findings from a small-scale research project which highlights the need to consider health, in particular, the impact of chronic health conditions on early childhood education and…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Inclusion
Katsiada, Eleni; Roufidou, Irini – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Young children's use of their Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) environment affordances, and especially the affordances of the floor, is an under researched area, both in Greece and internationally. This paper draws on findings from an ethnographic case study research conducted in Greece and presents an account of children's…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Zhang, Zhiguang; Kuzik, Nicholas; Adamo, Kristi B.; Ogden, Nancy; Goldfield, Gary S.; Okely, Anthony D.; Crozier, Mitchell; Hunter, Stephen; Predy, Madison; Carson, Valerie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Child care centers are important for children's behaviors. Aims: To examine the cross-sectional associations between child care environmental characteristics and physical activity and sedentary time in children. Methods: Participants were 124 toddlers and 118 preschoolers from 19 centers in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Care, Educational Environment, Rating Scales
Wyslowska, Olga; Slot, Pauline L. – Early Education and Development, 2020
This cross-national study involved 56 toddler classrooms in Poland and the Netherlands. A cluster analysis was conducted to identify classroom profiles based on observed quality and these were compared regarding structural (group size and children-to-teacher ratio) and curriculum (e.g. pre-academics and pretend play) characteristics. In total, 224…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care, Comparative Education
Tebet, Gabriela G. De C.; Santos, Natália; Costa, Julia; Santos, Bruna Lima; Pontes, Loani Cristina Buzo; Oliveira, Sabrina; D'Andrea, Maria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
This article aims to discuss the quality of early childhood education and care in Brazil and the process of infants' and toddlers' "Inserimento" to daycare. The theoretical framework of our arguments is based on the notion of quality of child education as a negotiated concept, and by the Italian concept of "Inserimento." The…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Infants
Kleppe, Rasmus – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
This article focuses on how Early Childhood Education and Care institutions provide for 1- to 3-year-olds' risky play--a previously little researched topic--utilizing data from an exploratory, small-scale study investigating aspects of risky play in the age-group. The main findings describe how three essentially different Early Childhood Education…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Play
Bjørnestad, Elisabeth; Os, Ellen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of toddler childcare in Norway using the Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ITERS-R; [Harms, Thelma, Debby Cryer, and Richard M. Clifford. 2006. "Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scales Revised Edition." New York: Teachers College Press.]), drawing on a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Child Care, Toddlers
Hammond, Ruth Anne – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
A pioneer in the infant/family field in the United States, Magda Gerber was the founding director of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), known for its unique two-generation approach to the care and education of young children. This paper offers a summary of Gerber's teachings from the late twentieth century with citations pointing to their…
Descriptors: Standards, Infants, Child Caregivers, Child Care