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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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Pedagogy, Knowledge and Collaboration: Towards a Ground-Up Perspective on Professionalism
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Dalli, Carmen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
Drawing on a national survey of New Zealand early childhood teachers' views on ethics and professionalism in their practice, this article discusses three key themes that emerged as core conceptual elements in how teachers in education and care settings defined professionalism. The three themes were: a distinct pedagogical style; specialist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Constructing Identities: Being a "Mother" and Being a "Teacher" during the Experience of Starting Childcare.
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Dalli, Carmen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2002
Deconstructs case studies of parents' and teachers' experiences as children started child care. Argues that mothers and teachers defined their roles against the background of dominant societal discourses about motherhood and early childhood teaching. However, while teachers spoke about themselves as less powerful than mothers in influencing…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Case Studies
Learning To Be in Childcare: Mothers' Stories of Their Child's "Settling-in."
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Dalli, Carmen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1999
Analyzed experiences of five mothers as they settled their children into their first child care center, and presented evidence that the mothers operated with intuitive theories about what this experience involved for their children. Connected themes in the cases to themes in psychological and societal discourses about children's development and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Caregiver Child Relationship, Case Studies, Child Development