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Rose, Jo – Children & Society, 2011
Members of eight inter-professional teams working in different areas of children's services discussed their thoughts on three types of inter-professional dilemmas. Participants described resolutions to dilemmas in terms of the construction and pursuit of joint goals. However, emergent themes included identity, power, territory and expertise. These…
Descriptors: Expertise, Interprofessional Relationship, Cooperative Programs, Teamwork
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Krieg, Susan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Developing a teacher identity is an ongoing and multifaceted process. In part, the process involves finding a voice amid the clamour of other, often contradictory, voices and complex conditions in which teachers find themselves. Drawing from a larger study of teacher professional identities, this paper explores how two beginning early childhood…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, Beginning Teachers, Interviews
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Mullins, Patricia – Education 3-13, 2007
This paper is based on the experience of working alongside new practitioners with the role of learning mentor as they engage in a national training programme. It considers the issues raised by evaluation at a range of times within and beyond the training. The main factors that emerge from the data focus on the role of inspiration, creativity,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Active Learning, Role Perception, National Programs
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Peters, Donald L.; Deiner, Penny L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1987
The article reviews the role of Head Start in providing educational services to young handicapped children and discusses the problem of the lack of adequately trained teachers to provide such services, suggesting the Child Development Associate Credentialing and Training Program as a means to alleviate this problem. (JDD)
Descriptors: Child Development Specialists, Disabilities, Federal Programs, Paraprofessional Personnel
McLearn, Kathryn T.; Hughart, Nancy; Minkovitz, Cynthia; Strobino, Donna; Scharfstein, Daniel; Genevro, Janice; Benedict, Mary; Guyer, Bernard – 2000
The Healthy Steps for Young Children program is a national initiative developed by pediatricians from Boston University in collaboration with professionals from the Commonwealth Fund. This program for families with young children (birth to 3 years of age) provides developmentally--oriented services within pediatric primary care through addition of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Development Specialists, Child Health, Family Programs
Muenchow, Susan; Shays, Susan – 1980
Head Start's 15 years of service are reviewed and future recommendations are presented in this report requested by the President of the United States. The program's successes include: (1) providing health care services to the poor; (2) effecting long-lasting educational gains for children; (3) fostering parent involvement; (4) promoting the career…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Child Development Specialists, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs