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Direct linkI-Hsiung Chang; Pi-Chun Hsu; Ru-Si Chen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
Preschool teachers in Taiwan face pedagogical and emotional challenges that shape their job satisfaction, commitment, and social identity. Understanding their views on professional development and organizational commitment in early childhood education is critical. This study aims to examine the relationship between caring climate and career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Work Environment, Caring
Yifat Harari Paltiel – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
This study examined how early childhood leaders working simultaneously as kindergarten teachers perceive the professional learning communities they lead -- explicitly identifying the factors that promote or hinder the communities' development from the leader's point of view. A qualitative-phenomenological approach was applied using semi-structured…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Leadership Responsibility
Michael Osei Aboagye; Collins Opoku Antwi; Kotor Asare; Ntim Seth; Ficus Gyasi; Frimpong Kwasi – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study examines how asymmetric job conditions deplete the psychological resources of the ECE workforce in a lower-middle-income country (LMIC). Specifically, this preliminary study, using data from preschool teaching staff, examined the influence of (a) job demands (emotional demand, workload, role conflict and work-family conflict) on…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Work Environment, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Burnout
Reetta Lehto; Elviira Lehto; Mari Saha; Ali Moazami-Goodarzi; Katri Sääksjärvi; Marja Leppänen; Henna Vepsäläinen; Kaija Nissinen; Maijaliisa Erkkola; Nina Sajaniemi – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study examined several early childhood education and care (ECEC) factors and their relation to children's salivary cortisol slope and hair cortisol concentration (HCC). The study is part of the cross-sectional DAGIS study, conducted in 2015-2016, examining 66 preschools and 677 children aged 3-6 years in Finland. Two saliva samples from one…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Stress Variables, Physiology
Scacchi, Valeria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on doctoral research which contributed to my understanding of early years professional development and learning grounded in Froebelian principles. Through two freestanding but related case studies in London and San Miniato, the article explores the current professional learning and development for educators working with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Faculty Development
Yodogawa, Yumi; Nozawa, Sachiko; Akita, Kiyomi – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
The Early Childhood Education Quality (ECEQ) initiative is a pioneering approach toward supporting ongoing, self-organized professional development in the private kindergarten sector in Japan. The purpose of this study is to examine how kindergarten teachers and ECEQ coordinators experience this approach and view the ECEQ process. Online…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Private Schools, Faculty Development
Nuttall, Joce; Grieshaber, Susan; Lim, Sirene; Eunju, Yun; Jooeun, Oh; Hyojin, Ahn; Sum, Chee Wah; Yang, Weipeng; Soojung, Kim – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This paper explores the relationship between workforce competence, migration, and quality improvement in the Asia-Pacific through analysis of Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy texts from three East Asia Summit countries. Content (word level) analysis of salient policy texts was undertaken to address two questions: How are culture and…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Work Environment, Labor Force, Cultural Pluralism
