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Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education

International Perspectives on Enhancing Learning Outcomes

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Editors:
  1. Susanne Garvis

    1. Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

    1. Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Explores international perspectives on quality improvement within the field of early childhood education and care
  • The concept of quality is understood in different ways both culturally and contextually
  • Sharing important insights into policy and practice, this book guides a shared understanding of the complex nature of quality improvement within early childhood education and care

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Specialized Pedagogical Approaches to Enhance Quality for Infants and Toddlers in ECE: Some Thoughts from Aotearoa New Zealand

    • Karyn Aspden, Tara McLaughlin, Linda Clarke
    Pages 1-19

  3. Evaluating Quality in Finnish Early Childhood Education

    • Johanna Heikka, Elina Fonsén, Marjo Mäntyjärvi, Laura Kiuru, Katja Suhonen, Lauri Heikonen
    Pages 21-44

  4. Measuring Danish Preschool Quality

    • Torben Næsby
    Pages 45-68

  5. Continuous Improvement in Early Childhood Pedagogical Practice: The Victorian Advancing Early Learning (VAEL) Study

    • Patricia Eadie, Jane Page, Lisa Murray
    Pages 69-91

  6. Developmental Work as Student-Driven Quality Improvements in ECEC Settings

    • Alicja R. Sadownik, Wenche Aasen
    Pages 93-110

  7. Perspectives on Quality in ECEC in Finland: A Content Analysis on First-Year Teacher Students’ Views

    • Marina Lundkvist, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen
    Pages 111-125

  8. Quality Improvement and Preschool Teacher Competence in Sweden

    • Susanne Garvis, Pia Williams, Sonja Sheridan
    Pages 127-143

  9. Improving the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care in Oman

    • Ali Kemal Tekin, Laila Al-Salmi, Maryam Al-Mamari
    Pages 145-162

  10. Quality Monitoring in Day Care Centers and Preschools: Discourses, Concepts and Experiences from German Early Childhood Education and Care

    • Stefan Faas, Sabrina Dahlheimer
    Pages 163-180

  11. Quality Evaluation and Challenges of Kindergarten in China: A Systematic Review

    • Yan Zhang, Susanne Garvis
    Pages 181-197

  12. Neuroscientific Approaches to Optimize Self-regulatory Skills in Children from Backgrounds of Poverty in Different Cultural Contexts

    • Eric Pakulak, Sebastián Javier Lipina
    Pages 199-228

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-231
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About this book

This book explores international perspectives on quality improvement within the field of early childhood education and care. Many countries and governments are focusing on preschool quality as a way to improve entrenched inequalities and reduce social disadvantage and segregation: this book draws together various global case studies to showcase how different countries tackle aspects of quality improvement. The concept of quality is understood in different ways both culturally and contextually, and the implementation of measures to improve quality will differ from country to country. The book draws together case studies from numerous contexts to showcase various ways of working with aspects of quality improvement. Sharing important insights into policy and practice, this book guides a shared understanding of the complex nature of quality improvement within early childhood education and care.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Susanne Garvis

  • Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

About the editors

Susanne Garvis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is a mixed methods researcher within early childhood education and works within early childhood teacher education and policy development around quality improvement.

Hillevi Lenz Taguchi is Professor of Child and Youth Studies and Early Childhood Education, Stockholm University, Sweden.  She focuses on praxis-oriented and action research, and has recent experience of leading the first intervention randomized control trial in Swedish preschool using brain-imaging data.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education

  • Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on Enhancing Learning Outcomes

  • Editors: Susanne Garvis, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73182-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73181-6Published: 29 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73184-7Published: 30 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73182-3Published: 28 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, Education Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction

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