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Early childhood education (ECE) programs comprise any kind of educational program that  helps  children  in  the  preschool  years  and  is  intended  to  improve  later  school performance.  In  the  second  half  of  the  twentieth  century,  the  early  education  system …

As immigrant children are in all the urban classrooms in Canada, US and Europe, EC practitioners have to understand their needs, to be able to work effectively with them. These children arrive in the classroom not as novices with blank language slates, but as language users with language and litera…

In this research they asked , we asked ECEC educators about their colleagues with semi-structured interviews and a national questionnaire survey (921 respondents). The qualitative content analysis of the answers revealed the main features of the ideal child educator. According to the self-reports, t…

Whilst international policymakers have reached consensus on the importance of investing in early childhood development and increasingly monitor that investment using standardized measurement, the nature and rationale of early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision remain diverse. In the conte…

In this article an overview is given of three qualitative studies of the competences needed to work in ECEC with children and families at risk. These three studies focus on ECEC practitioners who have played an active role in a change process aimed at developing a new pedagogical approach to working…

In this article an overview is given of three qualitative studies of the competences needed to work in ECEC with children and families at risk. These three studies focus on ECEC practitioners who have played an active role in a change process aimed at developing a new pedagogical approach to working…

Il libro degli affetti viene realizzato dalle famiglie durante il periodo d’ambientamento del bambino. All’interno del libro sono presenti le foto dei componenti della famiglia, con una piccola frase o descrizione. La famiglia può scegliere liberamente come realizzare il libro, quali foto inser…

In questi anni educativi abbiamo ospitato al nido varie tirocinanti ungheresi. I bambini e le bambine hanno sempre accolto con affetto queste ragazze partecipando alle esperienze da loro proposte. Inizialmente, in particolare con qualcuna di loro, è stato difficile comunicare con loro ma, con il pa…