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Download full textWilinski, Bethany; Nguyen, Cuong Huy; Landgraf, Jessica M. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2016
Global attention to early childhood education (ECE) has led to an increased focus on ECE teacher training as a critical component of providing young children with access to high-quality ECE programs. In this paper, we ask how Tanzanian stakeholders at different levels of implementation experienced and responded to efforts to build capacity in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Longitudinal Studies
Graue, M. Elizabeth; Wilinski, Bethany; Nocera, Amato – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The opposing principles of local control and increased standardization are a prominent tension in the United States' education system. Since at least the early 1990s, this tension has taken shape around the accountability movement, defined by educational reforms that hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for performance on new…
Descriptors: School District Autonomy, Accountability, Case Studies, Preschool Education
Direct linkBalduzzi, Lucia; Lazzari, Arianna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
In recent years, the issue of early childhood staff professionalisation has been taking an increasingly prominent position in policy-making and academic debates at the international level. Despite this growing interest, studies investigating the content and delivery of professional preparation programmes for early childhood practitioners are still…
Descriptors: Mentors, Workplace Learning, Context Effect, Educational Policy
Miller, Melinda G.; Knowles, Meg; Grieshaber, Susan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
In Australia, eligible long day care services may apply for support at the state level to assist with the transition of children from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds into childcare settings. For staff in childcare services, this support comes in the form of a cultural support worker (CSW). The primary role of a CSW is to build…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Student Diversity, Staff Development
Barnett, W. Steven; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Brown, Kirsty; Squires, Jim; Horowitz, Michelle – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2016
This report explores the extent to which states (and several large cities) are positioned to provide high quality preschool education on a large scale. States and cities that are already doing so or that could do so with modest improvements offer opportunities for advocacy to advance access to high quality early education as well as for rigorous…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Khaleghi, Farahnaz – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The deluge of early child development research over the past 20 years has sparked an unprecedented public interest in the first years of children's lives. Research indicates that quality early education promotes the overall development of a healthy child. The Desired Results System, a standards-based accountability initiative of the California…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Parent Participation
Mohite, Prerana; Bhatt, Namita – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
The education and care of young children has been rooted in Indian culture as reflected in ancient scriptures and documents, and has continued to be a significant engagement during the pre- and post-independence period and in the contemporary realm of education. Yet, in the present situation, the progress and understanding of early childhood care…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Child Care
