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Direct linkNasiopoulou, Panagiota; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article aims to explore the conditions for children's language and literacy learning in 153 Swedish preschools with children one to five years. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) is used to evaluate preschool quality, focusing on the subscale of Language and literacy activities. The study draws on Bronfenbrenner's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Garvis, Susanne; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Mellgren, Elisabeth – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Quality in early childhood education is an important topic in many countries. Research suggests that high-quality preschool provides many long-term benefits for young children and society. How to measure early childhood quality however can be problematic. One approach has been the use of the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedSheridan, Sonja; Schuster, Kathe-Maria – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2001
Examined how the concept of quality in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) is concretized in pedagogical processes, in a comparison of classroom observations in Germany and Sweden. Observers from each country evaluated preschools in the other country, using the ECERS. Comparisons showed the benefits of using ECERS for facilitating…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education
Download full textSheridan, Sonja – 1995
The Lerum Competence Development Project seeks to develop a model for educator inservice training to improve the quality of day care. Lerum is a small community outside Goteborg, Sweden, with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The expansion of childcare provision within the community necessitates support of the teachers because of economic and…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Educational Change
