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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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National Accreditation and Its Role in Early Education: An Analysis of Florida's Gold Seal Quality Child-Care Program and Licensing Standards
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Winterbottom, Christian; Jones, Ithel – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
This article reports on the first Florida statewide assessment of the Gold Seal Quality Care program, accreditation, and the relationship with licensing violations. This study analyzed the differences between the Department of Children and Families Gold Seal-Accredited facilities and nonaccredited facilities by comparing the facilities and the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Accreditation (Institutions), Early Childhood Education
"Professional Feeling": One Early Childhood Educator's Emotional Discomfort as a Teacher and Learner
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Madrid, Samara; Baldwin, Nikki; Frye, Eleanor – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
Using feminist and poststructuralist accounts of teacher emotion, the analysis presented in this article examines one teacher's emotion as she participated in a 6-month ethnographic study of emotion in her preschool classroom while enrolled in an online graduate course focused on the sociology of childhood and socially just curriculum.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Ethnography