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Adnan Mohammad Farah; Esra Kaskaloglu Almulla; Mohammed Borhandden Musah – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
This study identifies different factors that contribute to Bahraini pre-service teachers' interest to specialize in early primary education. The sample of study comprised 108 year one and 49 foundation students enrolled in Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain. A stratified random sampling technique was used to insure the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Interests, Elementary Education
Michelle Maier; Sydney Roach – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
High-quality, stable child care and early education (CCEE) can have lasting, positive impacts on children. However, there are ongoing challenges in recruiting, supporting, and retaining a qualified, stable CCEE workforce that provides high-quality care. CCEE educators typically have low levels of compensation; limited opportunities for education,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Labor Force Development, Early Childhood Teachers
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Sanni Kahila; T. Kuutti; J. Kahila; N. Sajaniemi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
Practicums as part of teacher education are important for teacher students' professional development. Co-operative teachers support students' learning during practicums, but in the early childhood education (ECE) context the work community of the ECE center is also seen as an essential part of the practicum environment. This study investigated ECE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Teachers
Mariale M. Hardiman – Corwin, 2025
With all the recent updates and advances in education and the cognitive sciences, it's crucial that we update and advance how we teach. It is time for our practices to reflect a focus on the way people think and learn rather than solely on the product of that learning. This new edition of the bestselling The Brain-Targeted Teaching® (BTT) Model…
Descriptors: Brain, Teaching Methods, Neurosciences, Cognitive Science
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Tebben, Erin; Lang, Sarah N.; Sproat, Eliza; Tyree Owens, Jovanna; Helms, Sydney – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Stress has been shown to negatively impact early childhood teachers' abilities to provide high quality, responsive environments for young children. Previous studies of early childhood teacher stress have focused on the tasks and responsibilities inherent in the job as well as on structural conditions within the field of early childhood education.…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Well Being, Coping, Preschool Teachers
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Karoly, Lynn A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Gomez, Celia J.; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2022
In the past decade, various stakeholders in the public and private sectors in Hawai'i have sought to increase the state's investment in child care and early learning programs. A new Executive Office of Early Learning was established in June 2012 to build a statewide early childhood development and learning system. The state also established a…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Child Care, Equal Education
Goffin, Stacie G., Ed.; Bornfreund, Laura, Ed. – New America, 2020
"Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators--A Compendium" is the culmination of an 18-month blog series that engaged diverse viewpoints about disentangling early childhood education's (ECE) long-standing thorny knot which is comprised of three of its most challenging issues: preparation and education, compensation and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Academic Degrees, Higher Education
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Tate, Alice – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In Aotearoa New Zealand, many early childhood teachers gain their teaching qualification via distance study while working in an early childhood centre. Early childhood teachers work in a team environment, and it is important to understand more about how distance students negotiate changes in their workplace practice as their professional knowledge…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education, Work Environment
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Kaarby, Karen Marie Eid; Lindboe, Inger Marie – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2016
The article focuses on the workplace as a learning environment in work-based early childhood teacher education in Norway. The main question is: Which understandings of the workplace as a learning environment are to be found in regulations and policy documents, among students and among staff managers? Taking as the point of departure, a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Educational Environment, Early Childhood Education
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Moloney, Mary – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
Caring for and educating young children is highly skilled and complex, and is dependent upon the educator's education and training, work environment, salary and work benefits. This paper which draws upon two annual BA ECEC Graduate Occupational Profile Surveys undertaken in 2013 and 2014, explores the perceptions of graduates about seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Early Childhood Education, Student Attitudes
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Bennett, John; Neuman, Michelle J. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
This article presents the most recent results of a comparative review of early childhood education and care carried out by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Founded in 1961 and based in Paris, OECD is one of the world's most important sources of statistical, economic, and social data. Based on reviews in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Young Children, Quality Control
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education