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Sims, Margaret; Calder, Pamela; Moloney, Mary; Rothe, Antje; Rogers, Marg; Doan, Laura; Kakana, Domna; Georgiadou, Sofia – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to examine the initial policies developed by Australian, Canadian, English, German, Greek and Irish governments to limit the spread of the virus. This has revealed governments' conceptualisation of the early childhood sector and its workforce. This paper argues that neoliberal ideology and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Although Greece has a dichotomous system both in terms of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and in terms of ECEC workers' preparation programmes, in 2016 Greek government's Organization for ECEC organized an open colloquy about the adoption of a 'Unified National Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care', causing a heated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Education 3-13, 2015
The present study, employing the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey, aims to compare and explore possible differences to the levels of burnout reported by the two main professional groups working in the early childhood education and care sector in Greece, that is kindergarten teachers and childcare workers. The correlation between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers