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Direct linkDoyle, Orla; Logue, Caitriona; McNamara, Kelly A. – Child Care in Practice, 2011
This study examined the factors associated with childcare staff members' readiness to implement quality standards in early childhood settings in Ireland. To coincide with a new government policy that provides every three-year-old child with access to a free preschool year, a framework designed to improve the quality of early childhood care and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
Boot, Ann; MacDonald, Gordon – Child Care in Practice, 2006
This article draws on results of an evaluation of Sure Start activities in an area of South Wales in 2004, focusing in particular on measurements of improvements to child development and measurements of benefits to parents. The article reports on the methods that were used to collect relevant data and examines the problems associated with linking…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parenting Skills
Mitchell, Denise R.; Dunbar, Carol A. – Child Care in Practice, 2006
This paper analyses the role of computers within the nursery sector and what are viewed as the potential benefits and concerns of introducing young children to computers. It also examines how the computer is introduced and presented to young children and the form it takes. Data collection comprises a number of methods: questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Preschool Children, Educational Technology, Emergent Literacy
McMillan, Dorothy J. – Child Care in Practice, 2005
Current discourse in educare acknowledges the partnership between parents and practitioners. But is the partnership a reality, and exactly what does the term mean to those who use it? The increased interest in the relationship between home and school is one of the most positive educational developments of the past decade. Today, at all levels of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
Bygdeson-Larsson, Kerstin – Child Care in Practice, 2005
Educational Process Reflection (EPR) has been introduced in Swedish pre-school practice and brought about an expanded focus in educational work, concerning democratic values and promotion of health. The study used EPR to facilitate professional development, by teachers' collective reflection of narratives and observations of interaction and play…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, Interpersonal Relationship
