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Expulsion in Preschools: A Case Study of Childcare Directors' Perspectives
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Tammy Marie Carney – ProQuest LLC, 2023
An estimated 10 out of every 1,000 children in preschool are expelled from childcare programs. The purpose of this qualitative instrumental multiple case study was to explore the experiences of childcare directors with preschool expulsion and their perceptions regarding the why and how the phenomenon and the nature of their role in supporting…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes, Child Care Centers
Modeling of Relations between K-12 Teachers' TPACK Levels and Their Technology Integration Self-Efficacy, Technology Literacy Levels, Attitudes toward Technology and Usage Objectives of Social Networks
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Yildiz Durak, Hatice – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
The present study aims to determine the relation between Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) levels of teachers and their self-efficacy in integrating technology, their technology literacy and their usage objective of social networks. Structural equation modeling was utilized to create a model explaining and predicting the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Networks, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
Mobile Creches: Innovating for Inclusive and Quality Early Childhood Development Programs
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Jain, Amrita; Singh, Deepshikha – Childhood Education, 2021
The benefits of early childhood education are well known, but access to quality programs is a challenge for children living in marginalized communities. Mobile Creches (MC), a non-profit nongovernmental organization based in Delhi, India, pursues the mission to ensure all young children, especially the most vulnerable children, have access to the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Nonprofit Organizations, Disadvantaged, Institutional Mission
Early Childhood Education: Penetrating the Impenetrable Issues
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Sakyi, Kwesi Atta – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
Early childhood education has received attention from philosophers, educationists and psycho-analysts such as Plato, Avicenna, Locke, Pestalozzi, Whitehead, Carl Jung, Binet, Piaget, Montessori, Sigmund Freund, Howard Gardner, among others. In Africa, the backdrop of poverty, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in strife-torn countries, among…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Governance, Intervention
Head Start Classroom Teachers' and Assistant Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development Using a Learn Framework
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Nasser, Ilham; Kidd, Julie K.; Burns, M. Susan; Campbell, Trina – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This study investigates early childhood education teachers' and assistant teachers' views about a year-long professional development model that focuses on developing intentional teaching. The study shares the results of interviews conducted with the teachers at the end of the implementation of a one-year experimental professional model in Head…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Assistants
Characteristic Collaborative Processes in School-University Partnerships
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Gardner, Dianne C. – Planning and Changing, 2011
This article presents findings from multiple years of evaluation of STEM-focused school-university partnerships. In addition to developing the three empirically grounded models of structural partnership configurations for project effectiveness, the CSEP team used these models to examine partnership projects for their characteristic collaborative…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, STEM Education, Models