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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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More than a Shortage of Early Childhood Teachers: Looking beyond the Recruitment of University Qualified Teachers to Promote Quality Early Childhood Education and Care
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Fenech, Marianne; Waniganayake, Manjula; Fleet, Alma – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
In Australia and internationally, government policies aim to increase the supply of early childhood teachers and thus improve the quality of early childhood education and care services. In this paper, we suggest that such a policy-quality trajectory in Australia is not as straightforward as policy discourses suggest. From industrial relations and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage
Frameworks for Change: Four Recurrent Themes for Quality in Early Childhood Curriculum Initiatives
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Burgess, Jennifer; Fleet, Alma – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper reports on the first phase of a case study that investigated how early childhood teachers experience organisational change. As one of three levels of quality improvement, State government-funded curriculum initiatives were developed with an aim to promote change. Three curriculum documents, one each focusing on literacy, pedagogy and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, State Government, Case Studies