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Direct linkMcChesney, Katrina; Clarkin-Phillips, Jeanette – Early Childhood Folio, 2020
The quality of early childhood education and care fundamentally depends on teachers' wise practice. However, the environments in which that education and care occur can influence, inform, and shape teachers' practice, and children's and families' experiences. This article draws on a written "portrait" of the learning environment created…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Educational Environment
Meade, Anne; Kwan, Meg – Early Childhood Folio, 2022
Weaving is a significant metaphor for kaiako in Aotearoa New Zealand. "Te Whariki" (Ministry of Education, 2017) is central to their professional lives. At Daisies Early Education and Care Centre (hereafter Daisies), the strands in Te Whariki shape the curriculum and its principles guide pedagogy and relationships. In January 2019, the…
Descriptors: Data Use, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers
Mitchell, Linda; Clarkin-Phillips, Jeanette; Archard, Simon; Arndt, Sonja; Taylor, Maretta – Early Childhood Folio, 2019
In this article, we discuss findings from a study of how 22 teachers in kindergartens and education and care centres in Aotearoa New Zealand spent their time at work. The teachers filled in time-use diaries, writing down details of what they did at different times over a whole working day. The diary entries were coded using a taxonomy developed by…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Kindergarten, Child Care Centers
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
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
Te One, Sarah – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2011
Recent research (Te One, 2009) investigated perceptions of children's rights in a New Zealand early childhood care and education service (the Creche) for under-two-year-olds. Focus group interviews, interviews with teachers, observational field notes, photographs and a researcher's journal were used to generate data. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Childrens Rights, Interviews
