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Emily A. Snowden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite the fact that high-quality preschool education is empirically acknowledged to facilitate short- and long-term personal, social, cognitive, and economic benefits, the professionals who teach preschool experience overwhelmingly poor working conditions that have historically been present as the role of childcare worker persisted throughout…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Educational Quality, Teacher Attitudes
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Cig, Oguzcan; Jones, Ithel – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study examined the relationship between young children's cognitive development and fathers' engagement in early childhood. The study examined fathers' home engagement patterns based on literacy, play, and caregiving activities when their children were 9-month-old and these patterns of engagement in 9-month-old were related to children's…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Parent Participation, Cognitive Development
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Stensen, Kenneth; Lydersen, Stian; Ranøyen, Ingunn; Klöckner, Christian A.; Buøen, Elisabet S.; Lekhal, Ratib; Drugli, May Britt – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The Student-Teacher Relationship Scale-Short Form (STRS-SF) is one of the most frequently used instruments globally to measure professional caregivers' perceptions of the relationship quality with a specific child. However, its psychometric properties for children younger than 3 years of age enrolled in early childhood education and care (ECEC)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Psychometrics
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Powell, Alana; Langford, Rachel; Albanese, Patrizia; Prentice, Susan; Bezanson, Kate – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of…
Descriptors: Elections, Child Caregivers, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Hellman, Anette – Ethnography and Education, 2021
The aim of the article is to explore norms about care and masculinity in early childhood education and care settings in Indonesia and Sweden. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it is shown how care in the two nations was produced as ambivalent for men, causing a risk of being accused of working with children for the wrong reasons. Two…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Masculinity, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Chang-Kredl, Sandra – Gender and Education, 2018
Cultural stories provide us with a repertoire of narratives through which we interpret and construct our understandings of the world, including our gendered understandings of the early childhood teacher. Through her notion of "écriture feminine", Cixous [1976. "The Laugh of the Medusa." Trans K. Cohen and P. Cohen. "Signs:…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Child Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Sex Role
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Naff, David; Williams, Shenita; Furman-Darby, Jenna; Yeung, Melissa – AERA Open, 2022
The mental health impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on PK-12 youth is likely an urgent and enduring concern, yet research on this topic is still emerging. To synthesize current knowledge, the researchers conducted a systematic review of empirical studies exploring the mental health impacts of COVID-19. Five themes emerged…
Descriptors: Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Education
Golding, Paul; Fitzgerald, Hiram E. – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
This article considers infant and toddler boys' unique susceptibilities to caregiving inadequacies that might lead to trauma in their development. It does so by examining the results of research, which point to three areas where boys are likely to have particular difficulties--their slower developmental timetable, their different relationship with…
Descriptors: Trauma, Males, Toddlers, Developmental Delays
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Repo, Laura; Sajaniemi, Nina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
Despite the growing body of evidence that the origins of bullying lie in early childhood, very little is known about the nature of the phenomenon in preschool groups. The current understanding among studies conducted in the school environment is that bullying prevention can only be effective if training with individual children takes place…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Child Behavior, Victims
Powell, Anna; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Copeman Petig, Abby – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) programs for children prior to kindergarten in California are provided through a mixed delivery system that includes licensed home- and center-based programs as well as school settings. The requirements, experience, and supports for educators vary widely across settings, depending more on funding sources and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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Van Laere, Katrien; Vandenbroeck, Michel; Roets, Griet; Peeters, Jan – Gender and Education, 2014
Despite the political and academic debate on the demands for more male workers in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), no European country has reached the benchmark set for 2006 to have 20% male early childhood workers. This has predominantly been countered by challenging the idea that care for the youngest implies an activity "that…
Descriptors: Males, Gender Differences, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Bilenberg, Niels; Bjarnadottir, Gudrun; Denner, Silvia; Dias, Pedro; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Frigerio, Alessandra; Goncalves, Miguel; Guomundsson, Halldor; Jusiene, Roma; Kristensen, Solvejg; Lecannelier, Felipe; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Liu, Jianghong; Lobel, Sofia P.; Machado, Barbara Cesar; Markovic, Jasminka; Mas, Paola A.; Esmaeili, Elaheh Mohammad; Montirosso, Rosario; Pluck, Julia; Pronaj, Adelina Ahmeti; Rodriguez, Jorge T.; Rojas, Pamela O.; Schmeck, Klaus; Shahini, Mimoza; Silva, Jaime R.; van der Ende, Jan; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
This study tested societal effects on caregiver/teacher ratings of behavioral/emotional problems for 10,521 preschoolers from 15 societies. Many societies had problem scale scores within a relatively narrow range, despite differences in language, culture, and other characteristics. The small age and gender effects were quite similar across…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Caregivers, Theory Practice Relationship
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Liu, Jianghong; Cheng, Halina; Leung, Patrick W. L. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
Preschool children have long been a neglected population in the study of psychopathology. The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), which includes the Child Behavior Checklist/1.5-5 (CBCL/1.5-5) and the Caregiver-Teacher Report Form (C-TRF), constitutes the few available measures to assess preschoolers with an empirically…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Caregivers, Preschool Children
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Moore, Jenifer; Yin, Lishu; Weaver, Tandi; Lydell, Peggie; Logan, Suzette – Reading Improvement, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine preschool caregivers' perceptions of the effect of gender on literacy skills. The five caregivers selected for the study were all female and full-time employees of the preschool. Case studies (including interviews, observations, and documentation) of each of the caregivers were conducted to examine their…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Caregivers, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
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Colley, Helen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
There is debate among early years experts about the appropriate degree of emotional engagement between nursery nurses and the children in their care. Through research into the learning cultures of further education (in the Economic and Social Research Council's Teaching and Learning Research Programme), the author considers how prospective nursery…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Vocational Education, Nursery Schools, Child Caregivers