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How Do Early Childhood Education Leaders Shape Professional Learning Communities?
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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
Supporting Self-Organised Professional Development in the Japanese Context through the Early Childhood Education Quality (ECEQ) Initiative
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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