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Team Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

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To ensure high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) for all children and to drive significant change in this field, ECEC policy-making has to incorporate and reflect on new research findings concerning factors that positively impact children’s well-being and learning in ECEC settings. The aim of the publication is to highlight the potential of results obtained from longitudinal studies to inform about the impact of ECEC on children’s learning and development and to encourage their use for evidence based policy making.

Edited by: Bernhard Kalicki, Namhee Woo, and W. Steven Barnett

  2. The purpose of this study is to find patterns in the latent profiles of behavioral problems of children aged 4, 5, and 6, in the child and caregiver variables that affected the composition of the latent profi...

    Authors: Jeong Rim Lee, Gilsook Kim, YeJin Yi, Shinyeong Song and Jinmi Kim
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:6
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  3. In Korea, recent upward trends in age of marriage and downward trends in fertility rates have motivated the Korean government to provide childbirth grants and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) subsidie...

    Authors: Eunseol Kim, Seong Hyeok Moon, Jeong Rim Lee, Yoon Kyung Choi, Namhee Do and Dongha Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. In this commentary, we draw on examples from the thematic issue ‘Longitudinal studies in ECEC—challenges of translating research results into policy actions’ to discuss how research from longitudinal studies i...

    Authors: Janina Eberhart, Sophie Hahn and Carolyn Seybel
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2017 11:1
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  6. Many early language support programmes have been implemented in ECEC settings over the last years in Germany. Most of them are targeted programmes which have not shown to have longer term beneficial effects. T...

    Authors: Yvonne Anders, Hans-Günther Rossbach and Wolfgang Tietze
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. The paper provides an overview of a German cohort study of newborns which includes a representative sample of about 3500 infants and their mothers. The aims, challenges, and solutions concerning the large-scal...

    Authors: Sabine Weinert, Anja Linberg, Manja Attig, Jan-David Freund and Tobias Linberg
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:7
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  8. Modern ECCE research began with the birth of the U.S. Head Start program in the 1960s; however, policy makers and the public paid little attention to it until several studies that had random assignment or wide...

    Authors: Lawrence J. Schweinhart
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:6
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  9. Longitudinal cohort studies have significant potential to inform policy across a range of child and family areas, including early childhood education and care. Here we describe the relationship between policy-...

    Authors: Amy L. Bird, Polly E. Atatoa Carr, Elaine Reese and Susan M. B. Morton
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:5
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  10. Interest in early years issues such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) and early intervention has increased in recent decades internationally. Partly this reflects interest in facilitating the social...

    Authors: Edward Melhuish
    Citation: International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 2016 10:3
    Content type: Research Published on: