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Rockel, Jean – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper critically examines current concerns regarding professional issues in labour force development for teachers with children up to two years of age (UtoT). The concerns in New Zealand (NZ) relate to whether initial teacher-education (ITE) qualifications prepare teachers to work with children UtoT, involving synergy between ITE and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Infants
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Gable, Sara; Rothrauff, Tanja C.; Thornburg, Kathy R.; Mauzy, Denise – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The current study extends a recent workforce development programme evaluation and examines the relationship between ongoing success in the three-year programme and participants' educational attainment, professional activities and several employment factors. Three hundred and twenty-seven teaching staff and 92 directors from 99 child care centres…
Descriptors: Credentials, Employment, Educational Attainment, Role of Education
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Hildebrand, Verna – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Examines the concept of human capital as an economic construct. Suggests that human capital contributes to economic development, as do physical capital or natural resources, in that its development reinforces individuals' future economic output. Suggests that this perspective may prove useful for human service professionals because funding…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit)