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The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study: Here We Go Again!
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Peter Moss; Mathias Urban – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
This colloquium brings information about a second cycle of OECD's International Early Learning and Well-being Study (IELS) to the early childhood community, and offers a further critique of the approach to comparative research that the IELS embodies.
Descriptors: Test Construction, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Research Problems
An Analysis of the Conceptualisation of "Quality" in Early Childhood Education and Care Empirical Research: Promoting "Blind Spots" as Foci for Future Research
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Fenech, Marianne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This article critically analyses how empirical research investigating quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the period 1980-2008 has conceptualised "quality". Applying Foucault's notion of "critique" to 338 peer-reviewed journal articles uncovered six interconnected truths: quality is an objective reality; quality enhances…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Journal Articles, Educational Quality, Child Care
Troubling the Identity of a Researcher: Methodological and Ethical Questions in Cooperating with Teacher-Carers in Norway
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Bae, Berit – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
The questions raised in this article have to do with how to take due care of the subjectivity of the persons involved in a research project. My main point is that a researcher's self-reflection on ethical problems is inextricably a part of doing research in early childhood settings, if we want to create knowledge which is valid and takes care of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Nursery Schools
Research Reconsiderations Concerning Cultural Differences
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Becher, Aslaug Andreassen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
"Minority children" experience a lot of shifts in their cultural contexts. The author's work as a professional teacher in multicultural classes enabled her to focus on the research questions presented in this article. These questions concern the need for some minority children to achieve equal opportunities in the Norwegian educational…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Context, Minority Group Students, Multicultural Education