Research in Early Childhood Education and Care

This research entails the beliefs of early childhood education and their efficient care and parents on their child early care and education. The research also entails the similarities and other differences that is beliefs and understandings of early childhood educators and their parents on the quality care of the childhood rearing settings.

Research In early
childhood education
and care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Article 1...........................................................................................................................................1
Article 2...........................................................................................................................................2
Article 3...........................................................................................................................................3
Article 4...........................................................................................................................................3
Article 5...........................................................................................................................................4
Matrix...............................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Early childhood education and care entails the regulated, organized preparation which
majorly provides sound education and early care that is required for their growth. In addition,
this is the care that is provided from the very beginning that is from birth to their compulsory
primary school ages. Children are vulnerable and require extra care and education form the very
beginning of their early age so that they grow and develop fruitfully in their lives (Alila,
Ukkonen-Mikkola and Kangas, 2022). Early childhood care and education depicts the major
factors of the environment which are associated with the positive results of the social and
academic development. Children are directed towards positive learning and early childhood care
and education with quality education and care which is provided with this structured program.
This research entails the beliefs of early childhood education and their efficient care and parents
on their child early care and education. The research also entails the similarities and other
differences that is beliefs and understandings of early childhood educators and their parents on
the quality care of the childhood rearing settings.
MAIN BODY
LITERATURE REVIEW
Article 1
According to the author, the nation-wide kindergarten provision in the process of early
childhood education and care and the rapid incline in children rearing services. Early childhood
education and their necessary early care bring forth the qualities of life living the social and
personal life. This entails the early childhood education. Children’s parents generally recognize
the quality of education which is accompanied with hallmarks of quality education, they
associate quality with the educators, their characteristics of providing the children care. For
parents, their children’s safety is very crucial so the seek a healthy environment for their child
and want that they are provided with efficient and quality education, learning and care. Parents
identify the bright, airy, very warm and welcoming learning environment so that their child is
accomplished with efficient academic and social education (Chapman, 2022). Colourful and
joyful environment where the child is more comfortable in, so the educators must provide a safe
environment for their child to efficiently gain knowledge playfully. Parent involvement in child
rearing is very crucial as the child is very comfortable with their loved ones and they are more
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efficient in providing their children a happy joyful environment. They help in extending the
coaching outside their homes too. Likewise, the educators create a room for the children to create
a more positive vibe within the classroom. The educator must provide an early education
systematized program so that the child is more efficient in working with their tutor and loves to
acquire different knowledge from their learner. Educators in early childhood education and their
care helps children performs the better organized learning techniques to let children better
understand the studies when they are in learning premise. It is vital for the parents to aid, support
their children with learning guidelines from the very beginning of their early ages so that they are
more efficient inn learning the social and academic domains clearly and their efficiency in life.
The parents describe the high-quality child rearing care as a space in which their child is happy,
joyful, their happily makes new friends, makes good interaction with their new friends, and has
interesting and experiences positive experiences in their lives.
Article 2
According to the author, early education and childcare in Australia the services that
accomplishes the qualitative examine researched these expectations by exploring more on the
quality services for child rearing. The Working Towards quality rating is expected to deliver a
continuous quality of learning process and their associated improvement. The examination
further entails the social constructivist areas which are associated with the child rearing processes
efficiently. This program aids the early child education and care (ECEC) emphasizes more on
data analysis which is important for the early childhood quality learning. The research findings
involve the essential findings of the early childhood education which fosters the work of
educators essentially. Findings highlights that the efficient educators takes in charge of child
rearing efficiently to foster the safety and education of small children from both within and with
their centres (Furu, 2022). Parents are the vital stakeholders when they want quality education
and childcare services. And this is very crucial to take parent’s perspectives on child rearing
process to foster the quality seriously and efficiently in the very process. Parent perceptions
respecting the quality importance in childhood education with the preschools-based education so
that they satisfy the demographic and structured educational programs. Health and safety are the
most important factor that any parents look in the quality educational rearing processes. Health is
the most determining factor and the other associated determinants entails the program
characteristics, their physical environment for the children, and healthy evaluation processes,
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their healthy interactions with the other peers. In addition, the other factors involve the
curriculum programs, safety and health programs are intended to be more specific in the
evaluation of parental ratings for educational quality and their safety purposes.
Article 3
According to the author, early childhood education and their care is essential to every parent.
They want their child to be happy and safe within the premise. In Australia, parents are more
dignified towards their child early education and their safety which is very essential for their
growth and their development. The standards set by the educators are essential for the pre
services that are provided to the children. Although constant reflection and efficiently waiting for
excellent feedbacks from the parent’s side is vital for the holding on confidence in work. The
effect of an educator impact and influence the learning pattern in children and they then work on
their abilities to recognize and consider their own accomplishments and strengths (Gupta, 2022).
The good early childhood education seeks expertise in handling children’s expressions efficiently
to foster their learning effectively. This standardized and quality education with early childhood
education majorly impacts the quality education.
Article 4
As per the perspective of Marianne, 2013 for most of the young children, early childhood
education and care (ECEC) offers the initial or first experience of living world in a large group
away from their home and families. Educators and parents/families believe that this experience
plays a very significant role in well-being, development and learning. As per the review of
various authors’ literature, it has been founded that the benefits or advantages of high-quality
early year learning (ECEC) are not restricted for the first years of life of children. In Australia till
1970, it has been seen that parent are more focused to the quality and development of the
individual centre as compare to the development of a quality system of early childhood education
in Australia. Therefore, due to the absence of the demand to such a system which is parent
driven, creates a strong or longstanding barriers for the establishment of a high-quality early year
childhood education system (Kuusisto, 2022). Therefore, for providing all Australian children
the one of the best possible starts in their life, the office of early childhood education and child
care offers initiatives and various programs which supports all early childhood education,
families, and child care sector. According the belief of parent and educator, the quality of an
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early child initiatives and programs are depended on the various key or essential elements which
is responsible to the development and growth of young children. These key factors are following:
(1) interpersonal interaction- the learning culture made through a teacher or early year educator
is very critical to the quality of an early year childhood program. (2) Physical environment: to
provide a better quality of education to young children in various aspects as socially,
emotionally, and mentally, the physical culture should be appropriate which provide a better way
to the young children. According the view point of Marianne fenech, 2013, there are three
intersecting influences which have together induced the parents to think about the early year
childhood education in Australia as personal concern rather than a public concern. These three
influences are following: (1) early year childhood education policy (ECE policy) as a
government’s art. (2) Educator restricted involvement with system advocacy enacting and
materialist discourse which naturalize motherhood (Lastikka and Karlsson, 2022).
Article 5
As per the point of view of Elise,2017, As per the various articles or research and the
historical accounts, it has been shown that in Australia, there are very limited role of parents in
the development of the early year childhood education prior to the passing of the act as child care
act 1972. Australian ministry of education should follow policy of Peru ministry of education
through which they suddenly become ranked at the top of movement performance table. For this
Australian government should discuss and execute the policy instruments theories to give a
comprehensive description of the basic causes or reasons of ministry of educations improvement.
As per the outcomes of this review article, it has been analysed that Ministry of health should
have follow the three principal events in way to get the policy success. In which first event is, the
acceptance of policy plan which long term as national educative plan for 2021. Second, the
regular validation of policies of government against early year childhood educator's union of
Australia and its defeat. Third the concentration of power in a central authority or local authority
of historically scatter control functions in the ministry of health in actual fact by the multiple
regression analysis it has been suggested that that vital and positive interdependence between the
group of tools used by ministry of education officers that is voluntary monetary contributions of
parent to schools, trimestral overview of performance of school and economic incentives for
outperform school (Nordström, and et. al., 2022) . As per the review canalization of the
outcomes of these initiatives, it has been analysed that tools of ministry of education are
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positively related with the very satisfactory early year's student learning outcomes. Since, early
year student learning is very essential to the children of young age because it assist the young
children to develop them in behaviourally, mentally and emotionally. Therefore, it is necessary
to the Australian government to implement these in the education system of Australia and also
encourage the Australian parent to take part in this program.
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Matrix
SN. Name of article Research
method used
for the
research in the
Research Tools Recommendations
of the articles
Gaps of the
Articles
1. Defining quality in early
childhood education:
parents’ perspectives
Research
method used
for the chosen
article is
secondary
method. It
involves
compiling the
data and
summary of
already
existing data
source.
Research tool
for the
particular
research paper
is
questionnaires.
A set of
questionnaires
was
formulated to
ask parents
some
questions
regarding the
outcome of
child care
services.
Researchers need
to communicate
with children in
order to analyses
their experiences
and development.
The research is
conducted
with the
purpose to
observe the
outcomes of
child care
services and
researchers
collaborate
with parents
to collect the
information.
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2. Ongoing quality
improvement in the
context of the National
Quality Framework:
Exploring the
perspectives of
educators in ‘Working
Towards’ services
Secondary
method is used
to gather the
information to
explore the
perspective of
educator’s e in
reference to
national
quality
framework.
A set of
questionnaires
was prepared
to use it as
research tool
in order to
explore the
perspective of
educators.
Researchers need
to demonstrate
the barriers faced
by the educators
in order to
improve the
quality of child
care services.
In this
research
article,
educators are
asked
questionaries
to analysed
their
experience in
working child
care setting.
3. Contextualized, not Neo
liberalised
Professionalism in Early
Childhood Education
and Care: Effects of
Prescribed Notions of
Quality on Educator
Confidence in Australia:
Effects of Prescribed
Notions of Quality on
Educator Confidence
Secondary
method is used
for this
research
article.
Analytical tool
is used to
gather the
information.
Vulnerable
children and
family are more
likely to get the
child care services
for the purpose of
their
improvement and
development.
The research
paper
concludes that
educator
requires a
training
session in
order to
provide quality
services to
Australian
children.
4. Whose quality? The
(mis)uses of quality
reform in early
childhood and
education policy
Secondary
method is
utilized to find
the relevant
data.
Analytical tool
is used to
gather and
analysed the
data.
Appropriate
training of
educators is
requiring for the
development of
required skills and
knowledge
regarding
standard child
The research
findings
explore quality
of Australian
child care
facilities. It
determines
the quality of
child care
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care services. services which
is being
provided to
the children
with the
purpose of
their
development.
5. Quality Early Childhood
Education for my Child
or for all Children?
Parents as Activists for
Equitable, High-Quality
Early Childhood
Education in Australia
Secondary
method is used
to find the
data
associated
with roles and
responsibilities
of parents for
the
development
of their
children.
Analytical tool
is used to
analysed the
gathered data.
Parents require
analysing their
children
behavioural
changes at their
early age to
provide them
appropriate child
care services.
The research
finding
demonstrates
the role of
parents and
educators in
early
childhood
development
and care. It
concludes that
parents as well
as educators
play an
important role
in the
development
of children at
their early
stage.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alila, K., Ukkonen-Mikkola, T. and Kangas, J., 2022. Elements of the Pedagogical Process in
Finnish Early Childhood Education. In Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care (pp.
257-274). Springer, Cham.
Chapman, R., 2022. Moving beyond ‘gender-neutral’: Creating gender expansive environments
in early childhood education. Gender and Education, 34(1), pp.1-16.
Furu, A.C., 2022. A Quilt of Practices: Sustainability Education in Finnish Early Childhood and
Care. In Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care (pp. 241-255). Springer, Cham.
Gupta, A., 2022. Global and local discourses in India’s policies for early childhood education:
policy borrowing and local realities. Comparative Education, pp.1-19.
Kuusisto, A., 2022. The Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care. In The
Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education
and Care (pp. 1-16). Routledge.
Lastikka, A.L. and Karlsson, L., 2022. My story, your story, our story: Reciprocal listening and
participation through storycrafting in early childhood education and care. In Finnish
Early Childhood Education and Care (pp. 147-164). Springer, Cham.
Nordström, A., and et. al., 2022. Widening text worlds in Finnish early childhood education. In
Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care (pp. 41-53). Springer, Cham.
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