ChildcareEducationInvestmentDespite being on the political agenda for over 20 years, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Ireland remains a neglected, underfunded policy area. In this chapter, N贸ir铆n Hayes explores the impact of the continued distancing of the state from interfering in ...
A recent study, Caring and Learning Together4examined five countries - Brazil, Jamaica, New Zealand, Slovenia, and Sweden - that have integrated their childcare and early education administrations. The study suggests that the consequences of integration within education have been generally very positive...
The intervention course, however, included a community-based, semester-long early education and childcare policy engagement and advocacy project. Students in the intervention course reported a greater increase in awareness of social policy and were observed as being more behaviorally engaged during in-...
Kamerman SB, ed.Early childhood education and care:International perspectives. The report of a consultative meeting. New York, NY: The Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia University; 2001. Tietze W, Cryer D. Current trends in European early child care...
4.4. Education and childcare: two parallel systems A third model of ECEC is a dual system of social welfare day care for neglected, abused, deprived, and/or low-income children and part-day educational nursery school for middle and upper class children. Funding and auspices tend to involve ...
Early Education & DevelopmentD. Kallós , I.T. Broman . 1997. "Swedish child care and early childhood education in transition", Early Education and Development , Vol. 8, 265 - 284.Kallos, Daniel & Tallberg-Broman, Ingegerd, (1997). Swedish Childcare and Early Childhood Education in ...
Foundations for quality : the independent review of early education and childcare qualifications : final report This document reports on the nature and standards of the training and qualifications for early years recommending a way forward. C Nutbrown - 《Department for Education》 被引量: 101发表:...
Another 24% of working parents reported having no regular form of non-parental childcare. Families with higher incomes were more likely to report using center-based care. Conversely, lower-income working parents with lower levels of education were more likely to use unlicensed HCC or report using...
The focus of this paper is on the education and training of staff who work in the early education and childcare sector but who are not members of establish... J Menmuir,A Hughes - 《European Early Childhood Education Research Journal》 被引量: 6发表: 2004年 Building on the Existing Structu...
and early education. In this regard, the EPPE study11has made it clear that only high quality ECEC makes a difference. For this reason, policy-makers and administrators must ensure that high quality services are available to all children. Average or even equal standa...