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Quality and educator dispositions for indigenous families in the urban early learning and child care context: a sco** review
This sco** review focused on the experiences of Indigenous families and their children in accessing quality early learning and child care in a...
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Does quality matter in determining child care prices? Evidence from private child care provision in Turkey
Child care prices are expected to reflect the quality of provision. However, in contexts where there are high information asymmetries between the...
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Child Care Centers Licensing Standards in the United States from 1981 to 2023
Over the past thirty years, there have been notable changes in child care ratios and group sizes. Child care ratios refer to the number of children...
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Implications of CCTV cameras on child-care centres’ routines, peer relationships, and parent–teacher relationships: child care educators’ opinions
In recent years, surveillance cameras have become common in the education system, in early childhood child-care centres as well as in preschools and...
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How stable is program quality in child care centre classrooms?
In the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector there is a move to reduce oversight costs by reducing the frequency of quality assessments in...
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Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes
Substantial research has aimed to characterise and measure early childhood education and care (ECEC) quality. However, heterogeneity in measures,...
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Parents’ Perspectives on Child Care Search Processes and Consumer Education Resources
Millions of parents use non-parental childcare for their preschool-age children. Prior research has focused on family characteristics that are...
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Teacher–Child Interaction Quality Fosters Working Memory and Social-Emotional Behavior in Two- and-Three-Year-Old Children
How does teacher–child interaction quality in early child care and education settings influence the development of social-emotional skills in...
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Association Between Teacher Depressive Symptoms and Rural Children’s Cognitive Outcomes: Indirect Relations with Early Care and Education Quality
A subset of extant data ( N = 423) from the Family Life Project, a population-based study of Black and White families with low incomes from rural...
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Assessing Generalization During Professional Development in Child Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Early childhood care and education providers provide instruction to diverse learners, including children with developmental delays, but often lack...
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Financial Challenges of Family Child Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study
The impact of COVID-19, both in quality and quantity, on the field of early childhood education, ECE is immeasurable. However, as research shows, its...
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Evaluation of A Business Management Program to Promote Child Care Educator Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Even though the tenuous financial model for Early Care and Education (ECE) is one of the primary reasons for many ECE programs’ permanent closing,...
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Family Child Care Providers’ Experiences of Implementing the COVID-19 Guidelines: Implications for Future Emergencies
The world has faced challenges from a variety of viral respiratory illnesses over the past few decades, including the 2002 Severe Acute Respiratory...
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Validation of clinical simulation scenarios for the teaching of soft skills in child-centered care
Consultations with children and their families are complex and require soft skills. However, there is a gap in the medical curriculum concerning...
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The effect of Universal Teacher–Child Interaction Training on Hispanic teachers’ sense of self-efficacy in early childhood education and care settings
Disparities exist in the availability of high-quality early childhood education and care settings (ECEC) across communities within the United States....
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Global tracking of access and quality in early childhood care and education
Investments in early childhood care and education (ECCE) have contributed to a growing demand for internationally comparable data. Yet data on access...
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The Whole Child Approach in Assessments in a Bilingual Child Care Center
Due to globalizing world demands and the government’s ambitious goals in the education sector, the number of early childhood education (ECE) programs...
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Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care through Leadership and Organizational Learning Organizational and Professional Development
This book provides insights in to how high quality learning environments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) develop, and how competent...
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Evaluation of snacks consumed by young children in child care and home settings
PurposeTo evaluate the effectiveness of food and nutrition regulations in develo** healthy behaviors of young children, this study profiled the...
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Professionalization and Professionalism: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
Internationally, professionalization has become a key policy strategy targeting quality improvement in early childhood education and care (ECEC),...