In Finland, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) includes day care arrangements offered to families (care) along with goal-oriented early childhood education (early education and teaching) provided for children prior ...

The aim of the study is to show the perception of early childhood education on the part of caregivers working in crèches in Poznan and taking care of children up to three years of age. Defining the concept of early childhood ...

The purpose of this article is to show the essence of the positive relationship between a caregiver and a child in early childhood. These relations can be defined as the readiness of adults to respond to signals coming ...

The following inquiry aims at exploring the beliefs of caregivers from the Public Crèche Network in Warsaw, the biggest network of this type in Poland, on the importance of fostering different developmental and educational ...

QualityMatters, an extension of a European Commission funded study, the CARE project, intends to examine whether the quality of teacher-child interactions varies as a function of particular classroom features (e.g., types ...

The presented study investigated the structural, process and curriculum quality in Dutch Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system. Teachers (N = 46) completed a structured questionnaire about the teacher, classroom ...

The text is a synthetic presentation of the endeavors of nursery staff to cooperate with a variety of institutions in order to support a child and a family in the nursery. What deserves to be emphasized is the educational ...

This article presents the results of a focus group interview with caregivers in a crèche, during which they spoke about various issues important to them concerning their relationships with children and they tried to discover ...