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Rusby, Julie C.; Jones, Laura Backen; Crowley, Ryann; Smolkowski, Keith – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Home-based child caregivers face unique stressors related to the nature of their work. One hundred and fifty-five home-based child care providers in Oregon, USA, participated in this cross-sectional correlational study. We investigated associations between indicators of caregiver stress and child care working conditions, the quality of caregiver…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Stress Variables, Work Environment, Correlation
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Happo, Iiris; Maatta, Kaarina; Uusiautti, Satu – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Well-educated staff consists of multidimensional experts, and this staff is one of the strengths of the Finnish day-care system. The aim of this article is to clarify the development of the expertise of those early childhood educators who have qualified as kindergarten teachers. The data consisted of the early educators' stories (n = 80) of their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
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Cornille, Thomas A.; Mullis, Ronald L.; Mullis, Ann K.; Shriner, Michael – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
Perceptions of childcare teachers in for-profit and non-profit centers were examined. Previous research indicates that childcare teachers earn consistently low wages, have little employee benefits and are dissatisfied with their work environments. This study further explores the employment issues and work environments that childcare teachers…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Child Care, Preschool Teachers, Child Care Centers