Early childhood educators are passionate but they are leaving the sector in droves.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Early childhood education and care
Displaying 1 - 20 of 35 articles
Our review explored what leads to early childhood educator burnout in 13 countries, including Australia.
Investment in UK childcare should go towards better pay and conditions for workers. This could also help increase availability and affordability for parents.
A Canadian peer support program for early childhood educators is helping staff feel valued and avoid burnout.
The two biggest states have jointly committed to a huge investment in early childhood education and learning over the next decade. But delivering high-quality universal preschool access won’t be easy.
This week’s announcements will add to the need to train more early childhood workers and to ensure they are more diverse in a way that better reflects our multicultural society.
Childcare centres are closing due to staff shortages, but this was a problem well before the pandemic.
A new study shows how migrant families struggle to get the childcare they need and how an easier visa system would help.
The government is paying childcare services in hot-spots 25% of pre-pandemic revenue. But without parents’ fees, the sector is still in a tough position.
Early childhood education and care centres, which includes childcare and preschool, are part of our village. They form a support network established to ensure parents’ and children’s lifelong success.
If the government really wants to invest in early childhood education, it needs to back the workforce.
One in five early childhood educators said they planned to leave their job within a year. It is vital we design a system and policies to ensure there are enough to meet the demand.
A large study shows preschool benefits Aboriginal children’s development more than childcare or being taken care of at home. But the benefits of preschool are not as large as for non-Aboriginal kids.
Whether the policy benefits high-income or low-income families matters, but it also misses the point — early childhood policies need to focus on what benefits children.
The NSW and Victorian preschool funding announcements are likely to increase the growing focus on early childhood education, which is shaping up to be a major issue.
Parents can find it difficult to choose a childcare service, given the plethora of types on offer. Here are three of the most well-known alternative educational philosophies explained.
A study found no statistically significant difference between the literacy and numeracy scores of school children who had attended preschool or childcare and children who didn’t.
In 2009, Australian governments made an agreement to provide all four-year-olds with access to preschool delivered by a trained teacher from 2013. We’re a long way from this goal.
Australia is far from having an early childhood sector that delivers what children and families need. The government can look to these three areas to ensure access for all Australian children.
A recent study has shown educators can include and teach children on the spectrum in mainstream childcare, alongside their non-autistic peers.
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education; Post Doctoral Fellow, Manna Institute, University of New England
-
Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
-
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
-
Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
-
Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
-
Associate Professor, Flinders University
-
Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
-
Adjunct Associate Professor of Education Policy, Victoria University
-
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor Political Economy and Deputy Director, The Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, La Trobe University
-
Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
-
Lecturer and Masters of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) Course Coordinator, The University of Western Australia
-
Professor, Charles Sturt University
