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van Rooijen, Martin; Jacobs, Gaby – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Interest in the professionalisation of childcare workers is growing, as the responsibility for children's upbringing and development is extended from the family area to early childhood education and care institutions. This sector is subject to intensified guidelines, where the overprotective tendency in society towards children has resulted in…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Risk, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Smale, Jim, Ed. – Early Childhood Matters, 1998
This document consists of the three 1998 issues of The Bernard van Leer Foundations'"Early Childhood Matters." This periodical, addressed to practitioners in the field of early childhood development, evolved from an in-house publication directed to projects funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Articles in the February 1998 edition…
Descriptors: Child Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries, Newsletters
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Van West, Patricia E. – Childhood Education, 1982
Focuses, in summary fashion, on the history and development of children's play-groups in the Netherlands, as well as their goals and philosophy, classroom structure and format, the role of parents, requirements for teachers and staffing, and methods of financing. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Financial Support
Hanrahan, Marian, Ed.; Prinsen, Bert, Ed. – 1998
This booklet is about the Mothers Inform Mothers program (MIM), a network of local early childhood care and development support programs in five provinces in The Netherlands. These programs are carried out in eight different towns (two large, four medium, and two small) in deprived areas. A short overview of the theoretical basis for the program…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Mothers
Terpstra, Linda; van Dijke, Anke – 1999
A crucial question for evaluating nationally or internationally implemented programs is whether local adaptations detract from program quality and effectiveness. An evaluation examined the program successes and challenges encountered in the first 5 years of Home-Start in the Netherlands, a home-based family support program for families with young…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Early Experience, Family Programs, Foreign Countries
Cornelisse, Martine; And Others – 1974
This report describes an experimental day care program in Amsterdam, begun in 1969 to investigate how a day care center could contribute towards the favorable development of children under four from unskilled and semiskilled families. Because it is only recently that day care for children under four has been used to any extent, this is the first…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Programs
Sociometrics, Inc., Hyattsville, MD. – 1990
In 1989, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development approved a 3-year international project to identify programs that have been effective in helping children at risk of educational failure. A conference held to launch the project identified program strategies for serving at-risk youth, determined ways for member countries to improve…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Dropout Prevention, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
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van Tuijl, Cathy; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This study examined whether the effects on cognitive and language outcomes of a recently developed home-based educational intervention program, Opstap Opnieuw, for 4-6-years-old disadvantaged children could be explained by improved mother-child interaction. The present sample (n = 30) was drawn from a larger sample of Turkish-Dutch families (n =…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Observation, Low Income