Most of us who work in early childhood education feel strongly that the work we do is valuable,【C1】___ essential, to the well-being of children and society. Yet it is hard to hold on to this【C2】___ when it is not reflected in the salaries that we receive or in the respect ...
This protocol for a systematic review outlines plans for comprehensive synthesis, mapping and quality grading of international research published between January 2010 and 2020, focusing on work factors and associated issues in early childhood education and care. Several cross and inter-disciplinary ...
The article focuses on the workplace as a learning environment in work-based early childhood teacher education in Norway. The main question is: Which understandings of the workplace as a learning environment are to be found in regulations and policy documents, among students and among staff ...
Early childhood provisiondocumentationlearning storiesOver the past 200 years, early childhood provision in Germany has primarily been oriented towards the goal of work-care reconciliation. Even though there is a long tradition in Germany of education-oriented approaches, the primary goal has always ...
The sample consisted of 37 teachers and 40 teaching assistants currently working in early childhood classrooms. Only one of the teachers was male. Nine teachers had master’s degrees, 12 had 4-year degrees, 9 had Child Development Associate credentials (CDA), 4 had attended college for a year...
In addition to demographic changes, early childhood education in Finland has been preparing for and undergoing large-scale policy reforms in recent decades. One such reform has been moving the administration and control of ECEC to the Ministry of Education and Culture from the Ministry of Social ...
Reconceptualist Work in a Colonising Context: Challenges for Australian Early Childhood EducationReconceptualist work in early childhood education remains fluid and challenging. Since the early 1980s, the Reconceptualist movement has provided new forms of praxis, particularly in response to......
In terms of gender, 228 male participants were recruited making up 25% of our sample. Notably, most (80%) have never previously sought help from their GP for mental health or ever had previous counselling or talking therapy (70%) indicating that, although this population would like to ...
Influence of early childhood burns on school performance: an Australian population study. Arch Dis Child. 2018;103(5):444-451. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2017-313355 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 24. Gilmour SM, Sorensen LG, Anand R, Yin W, ...
People do realise that being a worker is not appropriate for children since they are still in the early age. People assert that they should enjoy their childhood first instead of participating in paid work. This is the time for them to play around toge...