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Rivas, Alexandra; Mooss, Angela; Pontier, Christine Hughes; Romillo, Jackie; Muñoz, Emma – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
Disparities exist in the availability of high-quality early childhood education and care settings (ECEC) across communities within the United States. Teachers have an imperative role in fostering children's socioemotional development; however, when the classroom climate deteriorates due to disruptive behavior, meeting these emotional and learning…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Early Childhood Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Student Relationship
Busch, Julian; Buchmüller, Thimo; Leyendecker, Birgit – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
Early childhood education [ECE] can foster the social-emotional adjustment and development of young refugee children. Still, the large numbers of newly arriving refugee families challenge the ECE capacities of host countries. In Germany, state authorities have subsidized flexible ECE programs for refugee children in response to this situation. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Refugees
Freeborn, Chelsea; Mardhani-Bayne, Alvina; Soetaert, Cheyanne – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
This scoping review focused on the experiences of Indigenous families and their children in accessing quality early learning and child care in a Canadian urban context. This scoping review was conducted to contribute to the field and frame a more extensive study involving focus groups and case studies. The analysis revealed a range of quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Urban Areas, Early Childhood Education
Raikes, Abbie; Rao, Nirmala; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Cohrssen, Caroline; Behrman, Jere; Cappa, Claudia; Devercelli, Amanda; Lopez Boo, Florencia; McCoy, Dana; Richter, Linda – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
Investments in early childhood care and education (ECCE) have contributed to a growing demand for internationally comparable data. Yet data on access to quality ECCE are not routinely collected in many countries, leading to limited information on equitable access to ECCE, quality of provision, and the impact on learning and wellbeing outcomes.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Access to Education
Ruutiainen, Ville; Räikkönen, Eija; Alasuutari, Maarit – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
The marketisation and privatisation of welfare services such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) have been a global trend in recent decades. Earlier research suggests that market-based ECEC provision often leads to inequalities and stratification of service users. In Finland, as in other Nordic countries where provision of ECEC has…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences, Parent Attitudes, Public Schools
Lattner, Katrin; Strehmel, Petra – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
This article investigates Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on ECEC leaders' perceptions of team leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of the team-related challenges ECEC leaders have been confronted with, how they have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Karila, Kirsti; Kupila, Päivi – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
This article analyses the theoretical, practical, and political interpretations of multi-professional teamwork in Finnish early childhood education and care during the last two decades. A semi-systematic approach was used to provide an overview of teams, teamwork, team composition, and multi-professionalism. The data were drawn from two main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Grgic, Mariana; Friederich, Tina – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
The staff shortages in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in Germany are an important issue. They impact centres that are forced to close earlier, shut down entire groups or are unable to open at all due to the lack of pedagogical staff. However, the federal states have been making efforts to address this problem. This article…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Professional Personnel, Supply and Demand
De Henau, Jerome – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2022
This paper simulates the likely fiscal and employment effects of a vast public annual investment programme of free universal high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in the UK. It examines the extent to which it would pay for itself fiscally for different scenarios of pay increases. Investing in high-quality universal ECEC…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Employment
Malhotra, Ragini Saira – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2022
Scholarship remains divided about whether emotional labor is 'skilled'. Interrogating gendered skill constructs that render emotions in work invisible, I examine two organizational contexts in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector: family and center-based care. I draw from 43 interviews, primarily with Latina and White women…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
Nilsen, Tone Rove – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2021
This qualitative study investigated teachers' beliefs about the availability of play materials in the physical indoor environment of early childhood education and care (ECEC). The empirical data were gathered from fieldwork in eight child groups in ECEC institutions across Norway and comprised 13 semistructured interviews with teachers. The…
Descriptors: Play, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Care
Varmuza, Petr; Perlman, Michal; White, Linda A. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada, focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an equity perspective. Data from the 2011 cycle of the General Social Survey (GSS) were used. Across Canada, parent responses reveal that 16.6% of children between the age of 12 months and entry to school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Porterfield, Mary L.; Scott-Little, Catherine – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
The purpose of the study was to investigate ways in which early childhood systems that rate and license child care programs, known as Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs), might incorporate requirements related to cultural competence into the system, including incentives, supports, and rewards for programs that foster cultural competence…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
Bibbs, Tonya D. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2018
Though family engagement has become a priority in early childhood education and care, there are problems in our understanding of the phenomenon. First, there is uncertainty about the target of outcomes--namely, should it be children or families? Second, the early childhood field lacks ethical guidance to address the complexity of this…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Caring
McGuire, Julianne; Gallegos, Danielle; Irvine, Susan – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2018
Early infant feeding practices are a critical part of education and care programs within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings. With an increasing number of children attending ECEC services from a young age, adherence to best practice infant feeding will improve long-term health outcomes. This paper uses inductive and deductive…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Early Childhood Education, Public Policy