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The development of Early Childhood Education in Sweden is a central concern for national and local government, and for school districts and preschools. While principals have the responsibility for, and a parti...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:8
Published on: 11 July 2017
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Almost all children in Singapore complete 1 year of preschool before entering primary school. However, preschool education (PSE) is not compulsory and is provided primarily by the private sector. Taking the na...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:7
Published on: 11 July 2017
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The purpose of this study is to find patterns in the latent profiles of behavioral problems of children aged 4, 5, and 6, in the child and caregiver variables that affected the composition of the latent profi...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:6
Published on: 23 March 2017
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This study aimed to evaluate an intervention programme for the enhancement of social-emotional well-being of young children through improving the social-emotional competence of kindergarten teachers and a spec...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:5
Published on: 14 March 2017
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In Korea, recent upward trends in age of marriage and downward trends in fertility rates have motivated the Korean government to provide childbirth grants and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) subsidie...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:4
Published on: 14 March 2017
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Growing evidence suggests that children’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC), especially center-based services, is associated with positive outcomes, particularly for children over one ...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:3
Published on: 23 January 2017
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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:2
Published on: 21 January 2017
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In this commentary, we draw on examples from the thematic issue ‘Longitudinal studies in ECEC—challenges of translating research results into policy actions’ to discuss how research from longitudinal studies i...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:1
Published on: 18 January 2017
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Many early language support programmes have been implemented in ECEC settings over the last years in Germany. Most of them are targeted programmes which have not shown to have longer term beneficial effects. T...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:9
Published on: 7 December 2016
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Contemporary kindergarten curriculum frameworks emphasize the importance of promoting children’s holistic development, thereby focusing on both academic and non-academic learning areas. This exploratory study ...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:8
Published on: 25 November 2016
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The paper provides an overview of a German cohort study of newborns which includes a representative sample of about 3500 infants and their mothers. The aims, challenges, and solutions concerning the large-scal...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:7
Published on: 7 October 2016
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Longitudinal cohort studies have significant potential to inform policy across a range of child and family areas, including early childhood education and care. Here we describe the relationship between policy-...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:5
Published on: 6 October 2016
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Modern ECCE research began with the birth of the U.S. Head Start program in the 1960s; however, policy makers and the public paid little attention to it until several studies that had random assignment or wide...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:6
Published on: 6 October 2016
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Improved quality in home-based child care (family child care and family, friend, and neighbor care) is increasingly recognized as a vital component of early care and education service systems in the U.S. and a...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:4
Published on: 17 September 2016
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Interest in early years issues such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) and early intervention has increased in recent decades internationally. Partly this reflects interest in facilitating the social...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:3
Published on: 7 September 2016
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Early childhood education (ECE) in China has been relegated to the role of ‘Cinderella’ by its educational authorities since 1980s, due to the policy of ‘marketizing and privatizing non-compulsory pre-school e...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:2
Published on: 26 August 2016
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In 2005, after many years of inaction, the Canadian government seemed poised to make real changes to national childcare policy—a marker of social movement success for the grassroots Childcare Advocacy Associat...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:1
Published on: 15 January 2016
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This paper presents a thematic analysis of documents produced during a recent ‘Regional Policy Forum on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)’, attended by over 200 participants including representatives f...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:13
Published on: 21 December 2015
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Australia’s first national early childhood curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework (Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR], 2009), aims’to extend and enrich children’s learning ...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:12
Published on: 28 September 2015
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This paper examines recreational activities in children’s free time, as a component of their wellbeing in a socio-ecological framework. Data comprise semi-structured interviews, conducted with 50 parents and 3...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:11
Published on: 25 September 2015
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In the field of child and youth support, preventive and parent-oriented support programs are currently emphasized. This is understood as a new paradigm of parenting support, which is sometimes referred to as “...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:10
Published on: 21 September 2015
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This paper uses data from a major Australian longitudinal study to test the extent to which children recruited on the basis of attending an early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting when they were 3–4 ...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:9
Published on: 3 July 2015
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Between 2007 and 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) introduced major national policy reforms to improve quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) (Brennan and Adamson, 2014). By analysi...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:8
Published on: 17 June 2015
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Strategies that promote the development of language skills are recognized as important in early childhood education. For early childhood centers and care providers, there are also additional concerns that inte...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:7
Published on: 4 June 2015
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Executive functions (EF) provide top-down control of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Such abilities are related to learning, emotional control, and adjustment. A promising line of research on EF examines ea...
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2015 9:6
Published on: 3 June 2015
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