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Hodge, Steven; Smith, Ray – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Although vocational education and training (VET) is often sidelined in policy debates about innovation and how to promote it, some research and theory highlights ways the sector does contribute. VET can be, for example, positioned as an instrument of 'knowledge diffusion' and thereby an active element in so-called 'innovation systems'. But the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Student Placement, Job Placement, Case Studies
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Robinson, Christine – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
The mandated early childhood framework in Australia requires educators working in early childhood services to attend to children's spirituality. Also, one of the five outcomes in this framework tasks educators with promoting children's connectedness with and contribution to the world, including natural environments. In this paper I present…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Constructivism (Learning), Religious Education, Phenomenology
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Jones, Anne E.; Henzi, S. P.; Barrett, Louise – Journal of Montessori Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to understand typically developing children's repetitive behavior in a freeplay, daycare setting. By studying repetition in a non-Montessori setting, we tested the assumption that repetition is a characteristic behavior of all young children and not limited to the Montessori environment. Although Maria Montessori…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Repetition, Play, Child Care
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Farrant, Brad M.; Harrison, Linda J.; Wise, Sarah; Smith, Grant; Zubrick, Stephen R. – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Child care centre attendance is associated with an increased risk of concurrent ear infections, but what is less clear is whether there are any positive or negative long-term effects of early child care attendance on the incidence of ear infections in later childhood. This research assessed the impact of early child care attendance on concurrent…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Health, Diseases, Risk
Steber, Kate; Epstein, Dale – Child Trends, 2019
Early Learning Indiana is a statewide nonprofit that advocates for early childhood education (ECE) services in Indiana. Their work includes operating and connecting families to high-quality child care centers, strengthening and supporting the ECE workforce, and advocating for expanded access to ECE services for families across Indiana.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Eckhoff, Angela – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2017
This research documents the use of digital media by young children in outdoor play spaces. The research was conducted at a child care center on an urban university campus in the southeastern USA. The research employed a participatory design and used a qualitative, reflexive approach to include the child's voice, ideas, and understandings of their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Child Care Centers, Urban Areas
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Hackett, Abigail; MacLure, Maggie; McMahon, Sarah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This article critically interrogates the model of language that underpins early years policy and pedagogy. Our arguments emerge from an ethnographic study involving 2-year-olds attending a day care centre that had begun to hold a substantial proportion of its sessions outdoors. The resultant shift in pedagogy coincided with changes in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Toddlers, Child Care Centers, Teaching Methods
Qing Zhang; Maria Sauval; Jade Marcus Jenkins – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
COVID-19 has created acute challenges for the child care sector, potentially leading to a shortage of supply and a shrinking sector as the economy recovers. This study provides the first comprehensive, census-level evaluation of the medium-term impacts of COVID-19 on the county child care market in a large and diverse state, North Carolina. We…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Evensen Hansen, Joakim – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
This study aims to investigate the language-learning environment and educational language practices in four toddler groups measured as high quality on the 'Listening and Talking' subscale in the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale -- Revised. The empirical data are taken from a larger fieldwork conducted in four child groups, and comprise 98…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Video Technology, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Burris, Jade – Journal of Research in Education, 2020
The training and education of childcare directors is ever more important with the increasing demands of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). QRIS have become the standard method in the United States for evaluating and assigning program-level quality status in early childhood education and the process is almost always managed by the…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
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Stone, Michelle R.; Webber, Natasha; Cawley, Jane; Houser, Natalie E.; Kirk, Sara F. L. – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Purpose: To explore whether parental perceptions of risk and attitudes toward risk-taking during play are associated with preschoolers' physical activity (PA) and physical literacy (PL). Methods: Nova Scotia preschoolers (35 boys, 17 girls; mean age = 3.8 years, range = 3-5 years) and parents (n=52 pairs) provided data. Linear regressions assessed…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Risk, Play, Preschool Children
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Lai, Yuk Ching – Educational Review, 2020
Studies on parental views and experiences of the integrated programme implemented in mainstream early childhood settings for children with disabilities are dominated by the perspectives of mothers and teaching personnel. Additionally, most of these studies are largely from Western countries. This hermeneutic phenomenological study attempts to…
Descriptors: Fathers, Child Care Centers, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Meyers, Adena B.; Swerdlik, Mark E.; Donnelly, Megan; LeShoure, Kela – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2023
This paper describes consultation training experiences offered through a decades-long partnership between a university school psychology graduate program and a local Head Start center. The collaboration provides a field placement setting where beginning students engage in activities tied to first-year coursework, and an advanced practicum site for…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, College School Cooperation, Consultation Programs, Graduate Students
Madelyn Gardner; Emily C. Hanno; Wendy S. Wei; Rosa Guzman Turco; Stepanie M. Jones; Nonie K. Lesaux – Grantee Submission, 2023
The current study analyzed patterns of neighborhood socioeconomic match across 3- and 4-year-old children's (N = 2,029) residential and preschool neighborhoods in Massachusetts. Most children (80%) lived and attended early education and care in different neighborhoods. Children in households with the lowest incomes and those whose families…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Stotz, Megan; Columba, Lynn – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
This study evaluated a classroom implementation of augmented reality (AR) for improving subitizing skills of preschool students. Children explored the mathematical concept of subitizing by using an AR enhanced board game, called "Creature Counting." The AR markers, which were friendly creatures, triggered the augmented reality functions.…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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