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Child Care Bureau, 2011
This report was prepared by the National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC) in partnership with staff from the Child Care Bureau. NCCIC compiled data reported in approved CCDF Plans and relevant attachments submitted by Lead Agencies for a selected number of questions. The information presented reflects some of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Technical Assistance, Child Care
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
In this article, the author highlights two main efforts in line with the historic twentieth annual status report on for profit child care. These includes: (1) adding new players in the "Exchanged Top 40" list; and (2) focusing on regional chains, organizations providing early childhood services in more than 20 locations in two or more states. The…
Descriptors: Child Care, Private Sector, Employed Women, Early Childhood Education
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Nielsen, Mark; Christie, Tamara – Infant and Child Development, 2008
The present work investigated the effect of modelling on children's pretend play behaviour. Thirty-seven children aged between 27 and 41 months were given 4 min of free play with a dollhouse and associated toy props (pre-modelling phase). Using dolls, an experimenter then acted out a series of vignettes involving object substitutions, imaginary…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Toys, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Montford, Emily I. Purvis; Readdick, Christine A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
The relationship between preschoolers' puzzlemaking strategies and part-whole perception was investigated in the present study. Forty-eight two year olds and 48 four year olds were randomly selected from eight licensed childcare centers. Puzzlemaking strategies (image, form, color, and trial and error) were measured by performance in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Geometric Concepts, Language Acquisition, Perception
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Kinos, Jarmo – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
This article examines the Finnish day-care centre out of a neo-Weberian-Bourdieuan frame of reference. The leading idea is that the day-care centre field is continuously shaping as a result of both inner struggles and struggles with other fields. The state, the education system, and trade unions act as the dealers of professional playing cards.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Unions, Child Care, Professional Development
Wauchope, Barbara; Shattuck, Anne – Carsey Institute, 2010
This brief, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, examines how rural families use four of the major federal child nutrition programs. It finds that 29 percent of rural families with children participate but that there are barriers to these nutrition programs, such as the lack of public transportation and high operating costs for rural schools…
Descriptors: Transportation, Nutrition, Rural Schools, Federal Programs
Siegler, Robert S.; Ramani, Geetha – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The present study focused on two main goals. One was to test the "representational mapping hypothesis": The greater the transparency of the mapping between physical materials and desired internal representations, the greater the learning of the desired internal representation. The implication of the representational mapping hypothesis in the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Disadvantaged Youth, Learning Strategies, Pretests Posttests
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Barnes, Carolyn; Taffe, Simone; Miceli, Lucy – Visible Language, 2009
This paper considers a sequence of failures in the design of information. It focuses on the Safe and Sustainable Indoor Cleaning study (SASI Clean), a 2007 government-funded study into cleaning practices in Australian childcare centers. Empowerment through participation was integral to the study, childcare workers being seen as collaborators in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Sanitation, Graphic Arts
Mitchell, Anne W. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
As an advocate for young children and families and an advocate for early childhood education, the author has long argued for improving quality and for investing more public dollars in ECE. To make her case, the author used several different arguments, including: moral; workforce productivity; brain research; and return on investment. The author…
Descriptors: Investment, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Young Children
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Uno, Kathleen – History of Education Quarterly, 2009
Research on the history of children and childhood in modern Japan (1868-1945) reveals that issues related to civil society, state, and the establishment of institutions for young children can be explored beyond the transatlantic world. In this essay, after briefly surveying historiography, a few basic terms, and earlier patterns of state and…
Descriptors: Historiography, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Li, Hui; Wong, Ngai Chun Margaret – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2008
This study investigated how a set of newly developed indicators of early learning and teaching by the government, which was based on western ideology of child learning, was implemented in a Chinese context like Hong Kong. Twelve early childhood settings of 5747 children and 284 staff volunteered to implement the indicators within two years and the…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Professional Development
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Thomason, Amy C.; La Paro, Karen M. – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: The toddler stage is a unique developmental period of early childhood. During this stage, children are developing autonomy, self-regulation, and language capabilities through interactions with significant adults in their lives. Increasing numbers of toddlers are being enrolled in child care. This article focuses on the need to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Care Centers, Child Care, Educational Quality
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Clark, Alena; Anderson, Jennifer; Adams, Elizabeth; Baker, Susan; Barrett, Karen – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: Determine child care providers' infant feeding knowledge, attitude and behavior changes after viewing the infant feeding Web site and determine the effectiveness of the Web site and bilingual educational materials. Design: Intervention and control groups completed an on-line pretest survey, viewed a Web site for 3 months, and completed…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Learning Theories, Control Groups, Cues
Forry, Nicole; Simkin, Shana; Wessel, Julia; Rodrigues, Katherine – Child Trends, 2012
Early life experiences are critical to a child's development. Research has shown that, for a variety of reasons, children born into low-income families are at a disadvantage when compared to their higher-income peers. Fortunately, research has also shown a positive association between high quality child care and the academic and social-emotional…
Descriptors: Child Care, Definitions, Low Income Groups, Focus Groups
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Girolametto, Luigi; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined the efficacy of a professional development program for early childhood educators that facilitated emergent literacy skills in preschoolers. The program, led by a speech-language pathologist, focused on teaching alphabet knowledge, print concepts, sound awareness, and decontextualized oral language within naturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Speech Language Pathology, Emergent Literacy
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