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Direct linkXiumin Hong; Sijie Zhao; Qiongyi Shan – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: A total of 4102 childcare center teachers were recruited to examine a moderated mediation model of the relationship between teachers' adaptive caregiving beliefs and professional competence, using caregiving sensitivity as a mediator and organizational support as a moderator. Results indicated that (1) childcare center teachers'…
Descriptors: Competence, Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers
Waters, Rachel; Spong, Sheila; Morgan, Janet; Kemp-Philp, Chris – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
This interpretivist community participatory study explores carers' beliefs about the potential usefulness of counselling in relation to the caring role. Twenty semi-structured interviews with carers were transcribed and analysed thematically. All participants thought counselling could potentially be helpful to carers, but their ideas about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caregiver Attitudes, Counseling, Beliefs
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
Wolf, Sharon; McCoy, Dana C.; Godfrey, Erin B. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have made marked efforts to increase school enrollment. Yet attendance and completion rates remain low, particularly for girls. This study examines the reasons that school children do not attend school in a sample of Ghanaian students. Girls were more likely to miss school because a family member was sick, whereas…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, Attendance, Access to Education
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
Cartmill, Tania; Deane, Frank; Wilson, Coralie – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
Adults who act as gatekeepers for young people may have the same barriers to help-seeking for mental health issues as young people. This study investigated the personal help-seeking practices of 47 Australian youth workers prior to and after a training workshop on youth mental health issues. Pre-post workshop evaluation revealed some increases in…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Workshops, Pretests Posttests, Youth Programs
Chiu, Ya-Wen; Weng, Yi-Hao; Lo, Heng-Lien; Hsu, Chih-Cheng; Shih, Ya-Hui; Kuo, Ken N. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: Although evidence-based practice (EBP) has been widely investigated, few studies compare physicians and nurses on performance. Methods: A structured questionnaire survey was used to investigate EBP among physicians and nurses in 61 regional hospitals of Taiwan. Valid postal questionnaires were collected from 605 physicians and 551…
Descriptors: Physicians, Hospitals, Nurses, Foreign Countries
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
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
