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Direct linkMcNally, Sinead; Share, Michelle; Murray, Aisling – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Anecdotal evidence suggests that grandparents provide a substantial amount of childcare support to parents of infants in Ireland yet there has been little attention to the provision of grandparent childcare at policy level. Using nationally representative data on childcare provision in the Republic of Ireland, this study examined the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Child Care
Gilbert, Jaesook Lee; Harte, Helene Arbouet – Child Care in Practice, 2013
This paper describes efforts to increase the quality in early care and education through targeted coaching. A collaborative including several community agencies and a university developed a framework of support for early care and education providers, using coaching as its foundational basis, called Coaching to Quality (CTQ). This paper provides a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Child Care, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Alhassan, Sofiya; Nwaokelemeh, Ogechi; Lyden, Kate; Goldsby, TaShauna; Mendoza, Albert – Child Care in Practice, 2013
The impact of additional structured outdoor playtime on preschoolers'; physical activity (PA) level is unclear. The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the effects of increasing structured outdoor playtime on preschoolers'; PA levels. Eight full-day classrooms (n = 134 children) from two preschool programmes were randomised into a treatment…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Intervention, Playgrounds
Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – Child Care in Practice, 2012
Many countries face a growing debate on the balance between ensuring children's safety and allowing children to play in physically and emotionally stimulating and challenging environments. This study is theoretically and conceptually situated within this debate, focusing on how early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners perceive the…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Braiden, Hannah Jane; McDaniel, Benny; McCrudden, Eunan; Janes, Michele; Crozier, Barbara – Child Care in Practice, 2012
This study used a pre-experimental and post-experimental design to evaluate a TEACCH-based Early Intervention Programme. Thirty-one parents of 18 preschool children recently diagnosed with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder attended the eight-week programme delivered by trained facilitators. Parents completed pre-intervention and post-intervention…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Testing, Preschool Children, Receptive Language
Bywater, Tracey Jane; Hutchings, Judith Mary; Gridley, Nicole; Jones, Karen – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Parenting programmes are effective interventions for preventing and treating conduct problems in young children. Up to 20% of children in disadvantaged areas have conduct disorder. Recent government initiatives such as targeting early years services to designated disadvantaged Flying Start areas in Wales have resulted in increased nursery-care…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intervention, Feasibility Studies, Disadvantaged
Doyle, Orla; Logue, Caitriona; McNamara, Kelly A. – Child Care in Practice, 2011
This study examined the factors associated with childcare staff members' readiness to implement quality standards in early childhood settings in Ireland. To coincide with a new government policy that provides every three-year-old child with access to a free preschool year, a framework designed to improve the quality of early childhood care and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
O'Hara, Maureen – Child Care in Practice, 2010
This study (2006-2007) sought to explore and examine whether the provision of full daycare improves the quality of life for children and their parents. There are now 60.8% of women employed in the workforce, according to the Central Statistics Office (2008). This means many changes for children, parents and families. Twenty-seven childcare…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Pickens, Jeffrey – Child Care in Practice, 2009
This study evaluated an early childhood socio-emotional programme aimed at promoting preschooler's social skills and reducing behaviour problems. The Peace Education Foundation (PEF) socio-emotional development programme was provided in English and Spanish to preschool teachers, parents and children in Miami, Florida. The programme instructs…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Peace, Preschool Teachers, Empathy
Greenspan, Stephen – Child Care in Practice, 2006
Diana Baumrind's typology of parenting is based on a two-factor model of "control" and "warmth". Her recommended discipline style, labeled "authoritative parenting", was constructed by taking high scores on these two factors. A problem with authoritative parenting is that it does not allow for flexible and differentiated responses to discipline…
Descriptors: Discipline, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Interpersonal Competence
Tee, Ong Puay – Child Care in Practice, 2005
Demand for childcare services in Malaysia is increasing. With the changing demographic landscape and increasing knowledge of the importance of early childhood education, provision of alternative childcare services has never been more significant. Children younger than four years of age are placed in registered childcare centres while their parents…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Child Care
Fallon, Jacqueline – Child Care in Practice, 2005
It has been recognised for some time that the effects of disadvantage are in place early in a child's life, and early intervention has become an established element of efforts to alleviate such effects. This paper describes the range of interventions that exist to address disadvantage among children in the birth to six age range in Republic of…
Descriptors: Age, Early Intervention, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Peyton, Lynne – Child Care in Practice, 2005
The third annual High/Scope Ireland Conference provided a forum for speakers workshop leaders and delegates from across Ireland, the UK, USA, Europe and South Africa to share their experiences of High/Scope in action. Research demonstrates that long term benefits for High/Scope participants include increased literacy rates, school success and…
Descriptors: Crime, Workshops, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
