International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy最新文献

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00134-x

Yohannes Tigro Tilbe, Gai Xiaosong

{"title":"Teacher-related factors associated with teacher–child interaction quality in preschool education","authors":"Yohannes Tigro Tilbe, Gai Xiaosong","doi":"10.1186/s40723-024-00134-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-024-00134-x","url":null,"abstract":"Quality teacher–child interaction is considered one of the primary mechanisms through which educational experience fosters the development of children’s competencies. Teachers’ self-efficacy and beliefs about developmentally appropriate practices influence the quality of classroom interaction. However, the findings are mixed, and more research must be done within the preschool teacher population. The present study investigated teacher-related factors influencing teacher–child interaction quality with preschool children. Two rating scales and one observation measure were used to survey and observe 55 preschool teachers in preschool centres of Arba Minch town, Ethiopia. Statistically significant positive correlations were found between teacher factors (i.e., teacher belief, self-efficacy, teaching experience) and teacher–child interaction quality (emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support). Teacher belief significantly predicted teachers’ emotional support and classroom organization, while teaching experience significantly predicted instructional support. The findings of this study have implications for concerned bodies striving to achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals aimed at increasing the supply of qualified teachers to ensure all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development and care so that they are ready for primary education, especially in the least developed countries.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142260552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing inequality of opportunities to child health and nutrition: comparison of Bangladesh and Pakistan 评估儿童健康和营养机会的不平等：孟加拉国和巴基斯坦的比较

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00133-y

GulRukh Zahid, Hamna Nasir, Fouzia sohail

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The relationships between teachers’ evaluation of children’s academic readiness and children’s later outcomes 教师对儿童学业准备情况的评价与儿童日后成绩之间的关系

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00131-0

Jiye Kim

{"title":"The relationships between teachers’ evaluation of children’s academic readiness and children’s later outcomes","authors":"Jiye Kim","doi":"10.1186/s40723-024-00131-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-024-00131-0","url":null,"abstract":"Kindergarten is emphasized as a critical first entry into the education system, as politicians and pundits believe kindergartners’ success can lead to later academic achievement. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of kindergarten school readiness data should consider how it is measured and how that affects learning. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies—Kindergarten (ECLS-K) cohort 2010–2011 data, the author examined the relationship between teacher reports about children’s academic readiness at kindergarten entrance and their later outcomes in reading, math, and science through fifth grade. This study used a latent basis growth model with time-invariant predictors to analyze the relationship's trajectory. Overall, findings determined that teachers’ perceptions of children’s Approaches to Learning, mathematical thinking, and science significantly impacted later achievements in math and science direct assessments throughout elementary education. This research discussed the practice and policy implications on teachers’ perceptions of school readiness and its impact on later academic outcomes.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A qualitative comparison of parents’ experiences of early childhood expulsion following a legislative ban 立法禁止驱逐幼儿后家长经历的定性比较

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00132-z

Katherine M. Zinsser, Sarai Coba-Rodriguez, Allison Lowe-Fotos

{"title":"A qualitative comparison of parents’ experiences of early childhood expulsion following a legislative ban","authors":"Katherine M. Zinsser, Sarai Coba-Rodriguez, Allison Lowe-Fotos","doi":"10.1186/s40723-024-00132-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-024-00132-z","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, numerous reports have indicated pervasively high rates of early childhood expulsion nationwide. In response, state and federal policymakers have enacted various measures to ban or reduce reliance on such exclusionary discipline. Prior evaluations of the implementation of one such legislative ban on expulsion enacted in Illinois in 2018 showed partial reductions but relied only on program administrator-reported data. Parents (N = 16) of children (43.75% children of color) expelled from Illinois early childhood programs before and in the years since the 2018 legislative ban were interviewed about their experiences. Parents in both groups reported similar incidents regarding how and why children are excluded, how programs communicated with parents about children’s behavioral concerns, and how programs assisted (or did not) with accessing resources and supports that may enable a child to be retained. Findings indicate that expulsions continue to happen despite the ban and families’ experiences were essentially unchanged and negative. Findings hold implications for the implementation of similar policy efforts across the country.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Profiles of child labour: prevalence, activities, contexts, and children’s harm extent in Raya-Kobo and Angot Districts, Ethiopia 童工概况：埃塞俄比亚 Raya-Kobo 和 Angot 地区童工的普遍性、活动、背景和对儿童的伤害程度

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00130-1

Mengistu Abate Weldeyesus, Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu

{"title":"Profiles of child labour: prevalence, activities, contexts, and children’s harm extent in Raya-Kobo and Angot Districts, Ethiopia","authors":"Mengistu Abate Weldeyesus, Bamlaku Alamirew Alemu","doi":"10.1186/s40723-024-00130-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-024-00130-1","url":null,"abstract":"Using a mixed research design, the overall objective of this study is to investigate the profiles of child labour in Ethiopia’s districts of Raya-Kobo and Angot. The study’s specific objectives are to examine types of activities and prevalence of child labour, to identify the children’s working contexts, and to evaluate the extent of harm children face in workplaces. The study hypothesizes the existence of significant variations in the profiles of child labour (activity types, prevalence rates, settings, and level of harm to children) as a result of several circumstances. While survey methodology was used to collect primary data from 431 randomly selected respondents, desk review and document analysis were also used to gather secondary data. The sampling procedures used include multi-stage purposive and systematic random sampling. Descriptive and inferential (Ordered Probit Regression model) methods of data analysis are utilized to analyze the data. The results of the descriptive analysis demonstrate a high incidence and magnitude of child labour, as well as children’s early entry to work. The regression analysis reveals children’s exposure to high levels of harm at work, which is directly exacerbated by household age, income diversification, land fragmentation, livestock number, shocks, and the predicted value of remittances. Contrarily, access to rural transportation, household heads’ education level, cart ownership, and family size reduce children’s harm extent while working. The study highlights the need to design strategies for age-appropriate work to protect children from hazardous and high-intensity activities, undertake community awareness campaigns about the impact of child labour on children, and strengthen local stakeholders’ capacity. Additionally, connecting rural areas and farmers’ croplands to towns or major routes via repaired or new roads would be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141522678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Young children’s trust and sharing decisions 幼儿的信任和分享决定

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00128-9

Hüseyin Kotaman, Mustafa Aslan

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Parents’ knowledge, perceptions and support around appropriate physical activity, screen time and sleep time levels for children 家长对儿童适当体育活动、屏幕时间和睡眠时间的了解、看法和支持情况

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-024-00129-8

Maree Howard, S. Akhund

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Composition of staff teams in early childhood education and care centres in nine countries 九个国家幼儿教育和保育中心工作人员队伍的组成

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-023-00121-8

Elizabeth A. Shuey, Stéphanie Jamet

{"title":"Composition of staff teams in early childhood education and care centres in nine countries","authors":"Elizabeth A. Shuey, Stéphanie Jamet","doi":"10.1186/s40723-023-00121-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-023-00121-8","url":null,"abstract":"This study draws on data from TALIS Starting Strong 2018, an international survey of early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff and leaders, to examine the staff roles (leader, teacher, assistant, specialised staff, intern, other) that are included in ECEC centres in nine countries: Chile, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway and Türkiye. The staffing profiles in ECEC centres are compared across countries as well as within countries, according to whether the centre was co-located with a primary school, its size in terms of the number of children enrolled, and the concentration of children with special needs and those from socio-economically disadvantaged homes. In addition, associations between the share of teachers and assistants in ECEC centres and staff reports of their time working on tasks without children, their collaboration with colleagues, their work-related stress and job satisfaction were examined. Results are discussed in terms of the different policy contexts in the participating countries and implications for building an ECEC workforce to address demands for both increased access to and better ECEC quality for children.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140887232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Innovative ways of handling staff shortages in ECEC? Increasing flexibility in the regulatory frameworks for non-traditional and non-German professional staff qualifications 以创新方式解决幼儿保育和教育中心人员短缺问题？提高非传统和非德国专业人员资格监管框架的灵活性

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-023-00126-3

Mariana Grgic, Tina Friederich

{"title":"Innovative ways of handling staff shortages in ECEC? Increasing flexibility in the regulatory frameworks for non-traditional and non-German professional staff qualifications","authors":"Mariana Grgic, Tina Friederich","doi":"10.1186/s40723-023-00126-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-023-00126-3","url":null,"abstract":"The staff shortages in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in Germany are an important issue. They impact centres that are forced to close earlier, shut down entire groups or are unable to open at all due to the lack of pedagogical staff. However, the federal states have been making efforts to address this problem. This article discusses innovative ways of handling staff shortages based on qualitative analyses of current regulations regarding qualification requirements for the ECEC sector in Germany. Our analysis focused on the question concerning the degree to which a multi-professional orientation is already widespread in the 16 licensing laws of the federal states and what other conditions have to be met by individuals wishing to work in the ECEC sector who have no pedagogical qualifications. The second focus regarding the handling of staff shortages was on the formal recognition of migrant pedagogical staff with non-German qualifications. The results revealed first a tendency to open the labour market to individuals with non-pedagogical qualifications in the majority of the federal states. Second, most of the federal states have created ways of recognising non-German qualifications and of putting in place special regulations for Ukrainian pedagogues. In summary, it can be said that despite the relaxing of the licensing laws, no major changes in team composition could be observed. This is a positive sign given the unchanged division of tasks and positions in the teams, as there are currently no structures in place to adequately support team members with non-pedagogical qualifications.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138565716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.1186/s40723-023-00125-4

Katrin Lattner, Petra Strehmel

{"title":"Pandemic-related challenges for team leadership in ECEC centres in Germany","authors":"Katrin Lattner, Petra Strehmel","doi":"10.1186/s40723-023-00125-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-023-00125-4","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on ECEC leaders’ perceptions of team leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of the team-related challenges ECEC leaders have been confronted with, how they have been experienced and mastered. Therefore, two qualitative studies were designed (Hamburg, Leipzig). A total of 55 ECEC leaders from different federal states were surveyed in guideline-based qualitative interviews (Leipzig study: n = 20 ECEC leaders; Hamburg study: n = 35 ECEC leaders) and analysed with a qualitative content analysis. The results show how teamwork changed under the pandemic conditions and what challenges the leaders faced, including a lack of staff (due to e. g. quarantine, disease), structural separation of teams, lack of communication, additional tasks (political regulations), and missing collaboration with parents. The results indicate that not only ECEC leaders are required to organise team development activities on a regular basis or to reflect on the experiences of the pandemic within heterogeneous teams but also setting providers and sectoral policies are called upon to support ECEC centres in crisis according to their needs.","PeriodicalId":44258,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138561179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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