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Izzivi in odzivi na ranljivost druzin na podrocju predsolske vzgoje
Problems in vulnerable families are multilayered and include the intersection of physical, psychosocial and other forms of distress. The multidimensional nature of the problems of these families is closely linked to the fact that there are many institutions in the field of education, social welfare, health care and others, in which treatment and support are not satisfactory or adapted to their needs. The article presents the partial results of a large-scale qualitative research study, results that refer to the position of vulnerable families in the context of preschool education. The study examined how vulnerability is experienced by parents of preschool children, how the expert workers in the preschools involved in the study responded to the parents’ vulnerability, and how they cooperated with experts from other services outside the preschool. A qualitative research method was used in the study. Data was collected partly through semi-structured interviews with various expert workers employed in two preschools, as well as with the parents of children in the preschools; the interviews were conducted individually and in focus groups. Using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), we have identified four representative themes: amongst parents, the two recurring themes can be subsumed under the headings “from door to door” and “adaptation/flexibility”, and amongst experts, under the headings “powerlessness/incompetence/lack of information” and “power/innovation/sensitivity”. The study finds that the ability to effectively contend with vulnerability presumes a reconceptualisation of the attitude of institutional preschool education towards the family, including a change in the professional role of preschool teachers. (DIPF/Orig.
Preschool affects longer term literacy and numeracy: results from a general population longitudinal study in Northern Ireland
The Effective Pre-school Provision in Northern Ireland (EPPNI) project is a longitudinal study of child development from 3 to 11 years. It is one of the first large-scale UK projects to investigate the effects of different kinds of preschool provision, and to relate experience in preschool to child development. In EPPNI, 683 children were randomly selected from 80 preschools, and 151 children were recruited without preschool experience. Progress was then followed from age 3 to age 11. Preschool experience was related to age 11 performance in English and mathematics. High-quality preschools show consistent effects that are reflected not only in improved attainment in Key Stage 2 English and mathematics but also in improved progress in mathematics over primary school. Children who attended high-quality preschools were 2.4 times more likely in English, and 3.4 times more likely in mathematics, to attain Level 5 than children without preschool experience
Evaluative criteria for preschool
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
The Promise of Preschool in Africa: A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique
This report presents initial results of a community based preschool program implemented by Save the Children in the Gaza Province of Mozambiqu
Central state child care policies in postauthoritarian Spain: Implications for gender and carework arrangements
In Spain, public preschool programs have continuously expanded in the past three decades. However, this education policy has done little to support increases in the proportion of women in the paid workforce. Preschool is not child care because the former does not address the care needed by children younger than three years old and offers programs with short hours and long holidays.Publicad
Identification with Latent Choice Sets
In a common experimental format, individuals are randomly assigned to either
a treatment group with access to a program or a control group without access.
In such experiments, analyzing the average effects of the treatment of program
access may be hindered by the problem that some control individuals do not
comply with their assigned status and receive program access from outside the
experiment. Available tools to account for such a problem typically require the
researcher to observe the receipt of program access for every individual.
However, in many experiments, this is not the case as data is not collected on
where any individual received access. In this paper, I develop a framework to
show how data on only each individual's treatment assignment status, program
participation decision and outcome can be exploited to learn about the average
effects of program access. I propose a nonparametric selection model with
latent choice sets to relate where access was received to the treatment
assignment status, participation decision and outcome, and a linear programming
procedure to compute the identified set for parameters evaluating the average
effects of program access in this model. I illustrate the framework by
analyzing the average effects of Head Start preschool access using the Head
Start Impact Study. I find that the provision of Head Start access induces
parents to enroll their child into Head Start and also positively impacts test
scores, and that these effects heterogeneously depend on the availability of
access to an alternative preschool.Comment: 23 pages, plus 32 pages of supplemental appendi
Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing
There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time as well as between services. Our identification strategy focuses on two services with similar contracting problems and local market conditions: preschools and primary schools. We study a period in which Swedish municipalities had full discretion in the provision of preschools, while their influence on the provision of primary education was limited by a national voucher system. The comparison of preschools and primary schools in a difference-in-differences model suggests that the political color of the ruling majority matters for outsourcing, which is consistent with the citizen candidate model of representative democracy.Outsourcing; Ideology; Public provision; Contracting out
Practicum Pairs: An Alternative for First Field Experience in Early Childhood Teacher Education
This paper focuses on partnership between pairs of students in early childhood education during a teaching practicum in preschools and kindergartens. One hundred students enrolled in early childhood preservice teacher education programs at a large metropolitan Australian University were paired and placed in kindergartens and preschools with host teachers. The project aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of host teachers and students involved in the paired practicum which was evaluated qualitatively using semi-structured surveys of host teachers and students. This paper identifies eight practices and two principles making this paired practicum successful or not successful
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