The Quality of Early Childhood Educators: Children’s Interaction in Greek Child Care Centers

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantina Rentzou ◽  
Maria Sakellariou
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Greek Child

Early Childhood Educators’ Use of Language-Support Practices with 4-Year-Old Children in Child Care Centers

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 371-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Bouchard ◽  
Nathalie Bigras ◽  
Gilles Cantin ◽  
Sylvain Coutu ◽  
Bénédicte Blain-Brière ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Language Support ◽  
Support Practices

Early Childhood Education and Child Care in Arizona : Is Availability Alone Sufficient?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Chapman ◽  
◽  
Margarita Pivovarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Quality Rating ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

With many states increasingly adopting Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) to rate their early childhood education (ECE) and child care programs, researchers question the use of these systems. Specifically, they are trying to understand the value of information provided by QRIS ratings and the implications QRIS ratings have on the quality of and access to ECE and child care programs for families. In this study, we attempt to understand the value of QRIS ratings when they are provided for families at the household level. To do so we take a close look at the relationship between availability of programs rated by the Quality Improvement and Rating System (QIRS) in Arizona and demographics of the communities they serve, and compare the utilization of the programs in communities with varying demographic compositions. While we find that more high-quality ECE and child care programs are available for children that are Hispanic, Black, and eligible for free and reduced-price lunch, we also find that families underutilized those programs. We argue that this underutilization might be due to a variety of barriers that the families are experiencing and believe that efforts should be directed to work with families and assist them in understanding their enrollment options.

Cortisol levels of caregivers in child care centers as related to the quality of their caregiving

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elles J. de Schipper ◽  
J. Marianne Riksen-Walraven ◽  
Sabine A.E. Geurts ◽  
Carolina de Weerth
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Cortisol Levels

scholarly journals Participatory Capacity Building Strategies for Improving Quality of Child Care Centers in Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
H. Petcharoen ◽  
N. Suwanpong ◽  
R. Ramaswamy
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Child Care Centers

scholarly journals Thinking with Doors and Perspectives: Reimagining Early Childhood Spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Sherry Rose ◽  
Kim Stewart ◽  
Candace Gallagher ◽  
Pam Malins
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Communal Responsibility

This paper explores, through a posthumanist lens, child care as a communal responsibility, taking into account varied partial perspectives produced through human and more-than-human intra-actions. Multiple narratives illustrate embodied and experienced complexities within child care spaces allowing us to reflect on uncomfortable truths to enact affirmative ethics as a way to transform the ways we care for children, their families, each other, and the spaces of child care. Specifically, we think with actual and virtual doors as producers and enablers to create spaces where early childhood educators might collaboratively interrogate how materiality and socially constructed hierarchies are embedded in the inequities that separate us, inequities further exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Quality of the infant/toddler feeding and physical activity environment in child care centers

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Catherine Hamilton ◽  
Heather Wasser ◽  
Margaret E. Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Physical Activity Environment

scholarly journals Changing Early Childhood Education Environments with Partnership, Quality Improvement, and Intensive Consultation: A Look at One Case

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Gordon Biddle ◽  
JaNay Brown
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Quality Child Care ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Partnership Quality ◽  
Sacramento County ◽  
Quality Child

To ensure that families get the childcare services they need, Sacramento County created the Quality Child Care Collaborative (QCCC). The QCCC is a partnership of several agencies focused on improving the quality of child care provided to children and their families. The QCCC practices can be worked into other childcare programs; other counties and states can benefit from emulating the QCCC’s actions, collabora-tion, and aims.

scholarly journals Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-326
Author(s):  
Beth Blue Swadener ◽  
Lacey Peters ◽  
Dana Frantz Bentley ◽  
Xiomara Diaz ◽  
Marianne Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
The Us ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
The Individual

Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? How are embodied and emotional aspects of care work manifesting in early educator/caregiver lives in the time of the pandemic? Who is caring for the caregivers and what care may be needed? How can we re-imagine the care of ourselves, and in relation to an ethics of care for the other?

Demanding Child Care

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie M. Fousekis
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Care Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Labor Activists ◽  
The 1960S

At the end of World War II, the federal government announced plans to terminate its public child care programs that had been established during the war for working mothers. In response, women in California protested and lobbied to keep their centers open, even as these programs rapidly vanished in other states. Analyzing the informal networks of cross-class and cross-race reformers, policymakers, and educators, this book traces the rapidly changing alliances among these groups. During the early stages of the childcare movement, feminists, Communists, and labor activists banded together, only to have these alliances dissolve by the 1950s as the movement welcomed new leadership composed of working-class mothers and early childhood educators. In the 1960s, when federal policymakers earmarked child care funds for children of women on welfare and children described as culturally deprived, it expanded child care services available to these groups but eventually eliminated public child care for the working poor. Deftly exploring the structural forces impeding government support for broadly distributed child care as well as the possibilities for partnership and the limitations among key parties such as feminists, Communists, labor activists, working-class mothers, and early childhood educators, the book helps to explain the barriers to a publicly funded comprehensive child care program in the United States.

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