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Kamiya, Yusuke; Nomura, Marika – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Early childhood education (ECE) is important to provide the necessary support for children's healthy development during the preschool period. We evaluated whether ECE positively impacted early childhood development in Lao PDR. We pooled two rounds of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys -- Lao Social Indicator Surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Preschool Education, Literacy
van Trijp, Catharina P. J.; Broekhuizen, Martine L.; Moser, Thomas; Barata, M. Clara; Aguiar, Cecília – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Parents play a vital role in identifying children's needs for support and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) features that support children's well-being. This study examined parental perspectives on features of ECEC that foster young children's well-being under and above the age of 3 years by interviewing 359 parents across nine European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Keang Ieng Vong; Sou Kuan Vong; Qian-Min Liu; Doris Pui-Wah Cheng – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
The normative cohesiveness idea in education, which constitutes a norm in thinking and practice that is inherently shared across the stakeholders, was adopted in order to understand and reflect on the existing issues of preschool teacher education programmes (PTEPs) in north-western China. The State, teacher trainers and preschool teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes
Henry, Adrienne J. L.; Hatfield, Bridget E.; Chandler, Kelly D. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) settings are influential in shaping children's early experiences. Informed by the Job Demands-Resources model, this study had two aims. First, we examined how ECE teachers' physical (i.e. muscular skeletal strain and infectious disease experience) and psychological (i.e. depression and job dissatisfaction) job strain…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Stress Variables
Trifonova, Maria Petrova; Peneva, Lyuboslava Dimitrova – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This article presents an exploratory study of educational quality in Bulgarian kindergartens at a time the educational system undergoes significant transformations in aligning with the principles shared by the majority of European countries. The focus is on the structural and process characteristics of quality, as measured by ECERS-3 on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Educational Quality
von Suchodoletz, Antje; Larsen, Ross; Uka, Fitim; Nadyukova, Iryna; Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
The existing literature on early childhood education (ECE) quality is predominantly from the US or other developed countries. In low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), systematic research on ECE quality, however, is very limited. In the present study, we explore variation in structural and process indicators of ECE quality in two Eastern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Cultural Differences, Preschool Teachers
Evensen Hansen, Joakim – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
This study aims to investigate the language-learning environment and educational language practices in four toddler groups measured as high quality on the 'Listening and Talking' subscale in the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale -- Revised. The empirical data are taken from a larger fieldwork conducted in four child groups, and comprise 98…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Video Technology, Caregiver Child Relationship
Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly; Makrakis, Vassilios – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
The displacement of thousands of people from countries facing war and violence has resulted in a refugee crisis that most host countries were not prepared to cope with. As a significant number of them are children, the education systems and educators were found unprepared to respond to the rights of refugee children for education. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Refugees, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Children
Matsumoto, Hiroo; Tsuneda, Miho M. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of early literacy beliefs held by early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers in Japan by developing a novel scale. We believed that overviewing ECEC teachers' beliefs about early literacy from ecological perspectives would contribute to understanding the underlying factors influencing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Improving Quality of the Child Care Environment through a Consultancy Programme for Centre Directors
Helmerhorst, Katrien O. W.; Fukkink, Ruben G.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne A.; Gevers Deynoot-Schaub, Mirjam J. J. M.; Tavecchio, Louis W. C. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
This study examined the effects of a newly developed on-site consultancy programme to improve global quality of the child care environment in non-parental child care centres for 0- to 4-year-old children as measured with the ITERS-R/ECERS-R. Using a randomised controlled trial with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up test, we compared 35…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Consultation Programs, Educational Quality
Chopra, Neelima – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2016
Schools run by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) play a pivotal role in providing early childhood education to young children belonging to marginalized sections of Delhi. However, literature review reveals that low learning outcomes are common among children attending these schools. Low levels of learning are often associated with poor quality…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Quality, Investigations
Oberhuemer, Pamela – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
Just over a decade ago, an OECD "Starting Strong" team reviewed the system of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Germany. Regarding the staffing of early childhood provision and referring in particular to resistance at the political level to raise the formal qualification level of educators in alignment with European trends,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Peeters, Jan; Vandekerckhove, Ankie – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
While policy-makers and researchers in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) often seem to speak different languages, overwhelming research evidence on how quality ECEC can play a key role in alleviating the effects of disadvantage can be extremely relevant for policy-makers. In this article, we focus on how philanthropic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Advocacy
McMillan, Dorothy J.; McConnell, Barbara – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
Following a lengthy consultation process across Northern Ireland (NI), 2013 saw the publication of Learning to Learn: A Framework for Early Years Education and Learning [DE (Department of Education). 2013. "Learning to Learn: A Framework for Early Years Education and Learning." Accessed July 15, 2014.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis
Wild, Mary; Silberfeld, Carolyn; Nightingale, Beverley – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
This paper considers the overt and covert discourses in two contemporary policy documents in England and Wales, "The Nutbrown Review: Foundations for Quality" ([DfE] Department for Education Department for Education. 2012. "The Nutbrown Review: Foundations for Quality: The Independent Review of Early Education and Childcare…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Labor Force, Child Care