The field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) traditionally encompasses care and education for children aged from birth to eight years. In this study, the focus is specifically on the field that provides services for children in prior to school settings, that being the birth to five sector. This sector is highly feminised and has emerged over the last century from philanthropic roots. Despite considerable work into leadership in other areas, until recent times, attention to aspects of leadership has been limited within the ECEC field and much of the research undertaken has focused heavily on centre-based leadership. This study investigated how personnel, from a range of services, understand and enact leadership. In terms of data analysis it draws heavily on symbolic interactionism as a methodological tool and engages standpoint feminist theory to inform the analytical process. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews with twenty-six participants who also identified artefacts, which they considered influenced and supported their understandings of leadership. In addition, two focus groups were conducted to explore themes emerging from early analysis of the data. Findings indicate two categories, which emerge as relevant to how leadership is understood and enacted by participants. The first of these is the concept of interpreted professional identity, which reflects participants' interpretations of who they are as early childhood professionals informed by their own views and the views of others. How individuals interpret their sense of self (manifest in their professional identity) is influential in the secondary category, which is interpreted leadership capacity. This category reflects participants' leadership activity or inactivity. The analysis reflects a complex interplay between how participants interpret their professional sense of self (interpreted professional identity) and their capacity and willingness to enact leadership (interpreted leadership capacity). Individuals in the formation of their professional identity interpret factors, both internal to the ECEC field and external (through social expectations). The culture of the ECEC field (internal factors) includes competing elements such as a discourse of niceness juxtaposed against examples of horizontal violence. Factors external to the field suggest there are lingering social associations between heroic male images and leadership, which make women as leaders problematic. Within a highly feminised field such as ECEC, this study brings new perspectives to understandings of leadership and its enactment.

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Submitted by Diogo Misoguti (diogo.misoguti@gmail.com) on 2016-06-20T18:34:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tassio-jose-da-silva.pdf: 3827680 bytes, checksum: 25ae2994306dbc28df8eeb658c3868bb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diogo Misoguti (diogo.misoguti@gmail.com) on 2016-06-20T18:34:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tassio-jose-da-silva.pdf: 3827680 bytes, checksum: 25ae2994306dbc28df8eeb658c3868bb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-20T18:34:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tassio-jose-da-silva.pdf: 3827680 bytes, checksum: 25ae2994306dbc28df8eeb658c3868bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12 / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo problematizar as relações de gênero que permeiam a organização e a utilização dos espaços de educação e cuidado, envolvendo as crianças, os/as professores/as, na creche e pré-escola. Investiga a organização dos espaços na Educação Infantil e as suas intencionalidades, apontando a forma como influencia as relações estabelecidas entre as crianças, a partir das simbologias, das normas e dos valores que expressam mensagens de gênero. Fundamentando-se em aportes teóricos que relacionam arquitetura e educação, os estudos de gênero e a Sociologia da Infância, esta pesquisa de inspiração etnográfica foi realizada em uma instituição de Educação Infantil situada na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. Além da observação direta, aplicaram-se entrevistas com professores e professoras. A pesquisa revela um processo de espacialização sob a ótica de gênero, mostrando como o espaço configura-se como um importante elemento de controle das crianças, a partir da lógica adulta, pautada pelas estruturas de poder. Identificando espaços de maior liberdade de interação, e espaços de maior controle e vigilância, foi possível perceber que a organização dos espaços apresentase carregada de mensagens e normas de gênero, sugerindo lugares, posições segregadas e opostas para meninos e meninas. A pesquisa mostra que a instituição legitima as normas de gênero quando não problematiza a organização e utilização dos espaços, criando espaços generificados, organizados de modo dicotômico, binário e segregados de acordo com o sexo. Ao utilizarem os espaços, as crianças ora reproduzem as normas presentes nos espaços, principalmente, nos processos de negociação e disputas, e utilizam de argumentos estereotipados para justificarem sua permanência ou uso dos espaços; ora as crianças tentam escapar das normas e criar formas próprias, criativas e lúdicas, burlam e buscam reajustar mensagens de gênero presentes nos espaços da instituição. A utilização dos espaços pelas crianças também demonstra seus desejos de estarem juntas e não separadas por sexo. A pesquisa contribui para um processo de sensibilização sobre as questões de gênero na infância, problematizando a intencionalidade-neutralidade na organização dos espaços da creche e pré-escola investigada. Busca também contribuir para o aprofundamento do conhecimento a respeito dos meninos e das meninas e da Educação Infantil, bem como o oferecimento de pistas para a promoção de práticas educativas mais igualitárias na formação da identidade de gênero, desde os primeiros anos da vida. / This research aims to discuss the gender relations that permeate the organization and use of educational spaces and care, involving children, / the teachers / as, in day care and preschool. Investigates the organization of spaces the early childhood Education and their intentions, pointing the way influences the relations between children from symbols, norms and values that express gender messages. Basing on theoretical contributions that relate architecture and education, gender studies and sociology of childhood, this ethnographic inspiration research was conducted in a Children's Educational institution located in Greater São Paulo. In addition to the direct observation were applied interviews with teachers. The survey reveals a process of spatial distribution from the perspective of gender, showing how the space is configured as an important control element of children from adult logic, guided by the power structures. Identifying areas of greater freedom of interaction, and spaces for greater control and surveillance. It was revealed that the organization of spaces presents charged messages and gender norms, suggesting places, segregated and opposite positions for boys and girls. Research shows that the institution legitimizes gender norms when it discusses the organization and use of the spaces, creating gendered spaces, organized dichotomous mode, torque and segregated according to sex. By using the spaces, children now reproduce these standards in the spaces, especially in negotiation processes and disputes, and use of stereotyped arguments to justify their stay or use of space. Now, the children try to escape the rules and create their own, creative and playful ways, evade and seek to readjust gender messages present in areas of the institution. The use of space for the children also demonstrates their desire to be together and not separated by sex. The research contributes to a process of sensitization on gender issues in childhood, questioning the intent-neutrality in organizing the spaces of day care and preschool investigated. It also seeks to contribute to the deepening of knowledge about the boys and girls and of early childhood education, as well as offering clues to the promotion of more equal educational practices in the formation of gender identity from the earliest years of life.

The topic of this thesis is Early Childhood Education and Care in the Netherlands. It brings the insight in the institutions for children up to six years old in the Netherlands. The theoretical part summarizes basic information about the Netherlands together with the conditions of family policy. The main portion of the theoretical part is devoted to the description of the educational system and characteristics of the various types of institutions that provide early childhood education and care of pre-school children. In addition to the principle of the functioning of institutions, the thesis explains the legislative anchoring of pre-school education together with staffing of institutions. The final part of the theoretical chapter discusses current issues and problems of pre-school education in the Netherlands. In the empirical part of the thesis it presents case studies of four pre-school institutions in the Netherlands; each of them represents a particular type of institutional care for a pre- school child. Each institution studied in detail, in its structural and processual aspects. The aim of this work is to map, describe and compare all four types of institutional care for preschool age children in the Netherlands. The following methods were used: content analysis of documents, semi-structured...

(in English): The aim of the thesis is to compare children's ideas about their future after leaving institutional facilities with the view of caregivers. The diploma thesis deals with forms of substitute care, specifics of children in institutional care including emotional deprivation, preparation and leaving the children's home. It analyses children's ideas about education, employment, finances, housing, relationships with the original family, partnership, parenting, and rescue network after leaving the children's home. The thesis combines interviews with children focused on their life ideas and questionnaires that were presented to their caregivers to assess the reality and the possibility of their fulfilment.

<p>Preschool is a central part of Swedish family life. The manner in which the state regulates preschool through laws, ordinances, and various kinds of written objectives has an impact on many people in the Swedish society. </p><p>The thesis examines the development of preschool state regulation from the 1940s until 2008. The starting point of the study is a draft for a new Education Act, put forward in 2003, which proposed that preschool should be integrated into the school system as a new form of school. The purpose of the study is to generate knowledge about the state regulation of Swedish preschool, and how it has contributed to the shaping of preschool as a societal institution. Questions considered in the analysis are how regulation delimits preschool as a social category, what role this regulation assigns preschool in relation to other actors and societal institutions involved in early childhood education and care, and what principles this regulation is based on.</p><p>The study has evolved within the research tradition of curriculum theory as developed in studies in educational politics. The analysis is carried out as a text analysis, where the concepts of boundary work, official classification and activity system serve as important analytical tools. Texts produced within the formal chain of decision and legislation: directives for committees, government white papers, ministerial task forces, bills, legislative texts etc., form the empirical foundation for the study. </p><p>The analysis shows that economic as well as legal and ideological governing instruments are used in the shaping of the framework of preschool. These frameworks are indicated in the form of different boundary markers that delimit preschool as a specific category and arrange it in relation to other categories. The boundaries indicated by these boundary markers have been subject to extensive discussion during the formulation process. Through this boundary work, preschool has been constructed as a full time preschool, commissioned to provide both education and care. The boundaries of this commission are in some respects indistinct and contain several overlapping elements with regards to family, social services and school. At the same time, preschool holds a fixed core with more distinct boundaries, in the form of a part time public preschool delimited by time and age and regulated by far-reaching legislation regarding the rights of children to attend. Owing to this construction, preschool may balance several different and partly contradictory demands placed on it by other institutions and by different interest groups, while at the same time maintaining a core of identity of its own. In that sense, preschool may be described as a boundary object. Thus, when it is suggested that preschool should constitute a form of school and be placed in the more formal regulation structures of the school system, the balance of this construction is challenged. </p>

Life course literature states that early childhood development (ECD) can influence most aspects of health throughout the life-cycle. Canada ranked last among 25 wealthy nations in meeting ECD objectives. Fewer than 5% of children born have clinically detectable shortcomings in developmental health, increasing to 26% by school age with emerging socioeconomic associations. Understanding how social determinants of health (SDH) influence ECD at the household and neighbourhood scales would help identify conditions for optimal developmental outcomes. The effects of SDH on ECD in the Kingston, Ontario area were studied. SDH were classified via marginalization (ONMarg) and deprivation (Pampalon) indices. ECD was measured via 2006 Early Development Instrument (EDI) scores for children most at risk upon school entry (Grade One). The basic spatial unit of analysis was 2006 Census of Canada Dissemination Areas, subdivided into quintiles of deprivation (Q1 being the least deprived and Q5 the most). EDI results from each of the quintiles within the two indices were compared and then combined. The socioeconomic health gradient assumes that EDI scores will directly correlate to material and social deprivation. Social deprivation had a slightly greater impact than material deprivation on children’s developmental vulnerability, with Q5 being the most vulnerable in all competencies. Surprisingly, emotional health and social competence were significant areas of vulnerability for children in Q1 and Q2. “Village effects” – when social determinants at the neighbourhood level have protective effects on ECD despite material deprivation at the household level – were present within the Q3 and Q4 groups for the domains of social competency and emotional health. While the highest proportions of early childhood developmental vulnerability are found within the most deprived households, the largest numbers of vulnerable children are spread throughout the middle-class in a variety of neighbourhoods. Canadian policy should focus on mediating avoidable risks within this critical time to avoid future deleterious health effects and costs. Mapping the effects of SDH at the neighbourhood level generates knowledge that informs intersectoral action by policy makers to provide the supports needed to foster healthy children. / Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2013-05-04 10:36:25.165

The thesis deals with the perception of the education's quality of the master's degree program of Intensive Care (NMgr. IC) at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University (1st LF UK) of current and former students towards their motivation and attitudes. It is processed in two parts within the specified topic of the thesis motivation and attitudes of students to study in NMgr. IC at the 1st LF UK. Introduction to the topic is focused on motivation and attitudes to study, qualification, specialization, continuous and higher education, to the list of educational opportunities in the field of intensive care, the competencies and their comparison with nurses and nurses in intensive care. The research is devoted to explore the perception of the education's quality for students and graduates of NMgr. IC at the 1st LF UK in conjunction with other aspects. It contains the empirical quantitative research, which was carried out by an anonymous online questionnaire distributed via e-mail. The obtained data were analyzed by mathematical statistics and are presented in graphs or tables. In the study participated 22 of the 44 students in the 1st and 2nd year and 26 of the 87 surveyed graduates of NMgr. IC at the 1st LF UK. Total research sample consisted of 48 respondents. The research clearly shows that...

The diploma thesis consists of two parts: Theoretical and Empirical. The Theoretical Part explains the basic meaning of the expression Intensive Care, the types of Intensive Care, its history and provides a description of an intensive care workplace and the health personnel working in Intensive Care (their education and competence). The thesis also deals with patients in Intensive Care and their needs. The objective of the Empirical Part was to ascertain the Czech general public knowledge and attitudes towards Intensive Care, their experience with Intensive Care as a patient or a person close to the patient. The methodology of the Empirical Part consists in a survey using questionnaires among Czech general public. The questionnaire was answered by 259 respondents. On the basis of statistical evaluation of respondents' data made by a statistics computer program, we found out the Czech general public is able to define the notion of Intensive Care and those who had their own experience with an intensive care workplace described the setting of the place as positive, which was a surprising finding. However, we also found out the respondents of our survey still lack information, and they would, therefore, appreciate to receive an information leaflet whenever entering into contact with an intensive care...

Title: The Pikler Early Childhood Education Author: Dana Noack Department: Katedra psychologie, FF UK Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Lenka Šulová, CSc. Abstract: The intention of this study was to explore how the parents who are familiar with the Piklerian principles use these in upbringing their children in the family in the period of early childhood. The theoretical part describes the process of socialization (with the emphasis on the preconditions for the early interaction both on the child's and the parent's side) as well as the topic of upbringing in the family (basic models and the relation of upbringing to the socio-cultural and the historical context) and the most important aspects of the child development in the first three years. The last chapter of the theoretical part introduces the Hungarian pediatrician Emmi Pikler, the basic pediatrist Emmi Pikler, the basic premises of her approach and it's principles related to the issue of the motor development, care and play. The empirical part presents the results of the qualitative content analysis of data gathered by a questionnaire. These data provide us with a basic picture of how the concrete parents use the Piklerian principles in upbringing their children.