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Feasibility of a Mental Wellbeing Program for Rural Family Childcare Home Providers
Childcare providers experience a variety of mental and physical challenges that impact their personal wellbeing as well as the quality of care they...
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Burnout and Perceptions of Child Behavior Among Childcare Professionals
Burnout is an increasing concern among working professionals; however, relatively little research has examined burnout among those in the childcare...
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Inclusion of Infants and Toddlers: Perspectives from Childcare Providers
Infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds with disabilities or developmental delays often participate in center-based childcare. Just like other care and...
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Preferences and Challenges in Access to Childcare Programs: A Mixed-Methods Study with Newcomers to Canada
Childcare programs enable newcomers’ adaptation and integration to life in the host country by allowing them to access employment and educational...
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Screen Time Policy in Alberta Childcare Centres
Increasing amounts of screen time among young children has become a growing concern. Childcare centres maybe one important setting to intervene. This...
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Challenges Faced by Childcare Directors During COVID-19: Leading During A Global Pandemic
Childcare centers have faced many stressors both during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on stress and co** theories, this study...
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An Examination of Suspension & Expulsion in Community Childcare Centers Two Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Suspension and expulsion have been documented concerns in childcare centers throughout the United States for nearly 20 years. This study examined...
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Maternal Well-Being and the Transition to Childcare: Impact of Caregiver Support
The current study examines the association between the mother-caregiver relationship and the psychological well-being of 533 mothers who transitioned...
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Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in a “Childcare Desert”
High-quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is an important component of thriving communities. It is central to the socio-emotional and...
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“Behavior that Endangers”: Analyzing Preschool and Childcare Expulsion and Suspension Policies
Expulsion is the harshest form of disciplinary action, and behavior policies are the foundation for this decision-making process. The purpose of this...
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Art Play with Daddy: Father-Child Play with Art Materials at Home
Paternal involvement in household and childcare has increased over the past century, but global studies show that most mothers still remain...
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“I help them see their potential”: The role of Cultural Navigators in Supporting the Professional Development of Immigrant and Refugee Family Childcare Providers
Cultural navigators (CNs) serve as a bridge between immigrants and refugees and receiving communities. CNs help individuals from minoritized cultural...
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Perceived Barriers and Facilitators in Infant–Toddler Day care Inclusion: The Childcare Professionals’ Point of View
This research aims to analyse the barriers and facilitators to enrolling a toddler in inclusive day care facilities. Data were gathered from ten ( N =...
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Expulsion from Community Childcare Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of One State’s Practices
Expulsion has been a well-documented practice in early learning centers throughout the United States. The present study attempted to describe...
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Expelled from Childcare: Suspension and Expulsion Practices in One State’s Community Childcare Centers
Suspension and expulsion, typically thought of as discipline practices for high school students, occur at the early childhood level. In fact, 3- and...
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An Environmental Scan of Existing Canadian Childcare Resources Targeting Improvements in Health Behaviours
The objective was to conduct an environmental scan of existing Canadian childcare resources targeting nutrition, physical activity, sedentary...
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Simulating employment and fiscal effects of public investment in high-quality universal childcare in the UK
This paper simulates the likely fiscal and employment effects of a vast public annual investment programme of free universal high-quality early...
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Understanding the Perceptions, Practices, and Barriers of Physical Activity Opportunities in Toddler Classroom: A Qualitative Study in Toddler Childcare Providers
Despite childcare providers’ substantial interaction with toddlers, very little is known about providers’ perception of toddlers’ physical activity...
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Theorizing Architectures of Home
Marek Tesar conceptualizes an architecture of home. The chapter works with concepts of belonging and being in the world, as recorded in stories of...
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Toddlers’ peer engagement in Swiss childcare: contribution of individual and contextual characteristics
The present study observed 86 three-year-old children ( M = 43.7, SD = 6.4) from 15 Swiss childcare groups, to investigate multiple individual and...