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Õun, Tiia; Tuul, Maire; Tera, Signe; Sagen, Kelli; Mägi, Helena – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Various factors of the quality of preschool child care institutions influence the development of children and their future success in school. The activities of preschool child care institutions in Estonia are based on the national curriculum. Several indicators of structural quality have been determined on the national level. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Child Care Centers
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Tuul, Maire; Mikser, Rain; Neudorf, Evelyn; Ugaste, Aino – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Establishing national framework curricula is a growing tendency in early childhood education internationally, and is considered to be part of the regulatory requirements framework for enhancing preschool teachers' professionalism. A topical issue in this context is whether and how teachers themselves see these practices as contributing to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Preschool Curriculum
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Kikas, Eve; Mägi, Katrin – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This study examined transactional development of mothers' beliefs (self-efficacy, success attributions of a child's success to maternal effort) and children's academic skills. Six hundred sixty-eight children and their mothers were evaluated twice: at the beginning of the first grade and at the end of the third grade. Mothers' beliefs were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Efficacy, Success, Child Rearing