The (in)convenience of care in preschool education : examining staff views on educare
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- Katrien Van Laere and Michel Vandenbroeck (UGent)
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- Abstract
- It is generally accepted that Early Childhood Education and Care should adopt a holistic view on education, in which education and care are inseparable concepts. Perspectives of staff members themselves are, however, often absent in these educare debates. We conducted six video-elicited focus groups with various preschool staff members (n = 69) in Flanders (Belgium), which is well known for its split system in which children between two and a half and four years old are confronted with the pivotal transition from an informal or formal caring environment (home or childcare service) to a formal learning environment (preschool). With Maurice Hamington's theory of embodied and performative care as a theoretical lens for this empirical study, we propose a new direction for pre- and in-service training, in which the use of emotions, embodied exchange and social responsibility has a central place.
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- Educare, professionals, embodied care, preschool, ethics of care, EARLY-CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, ETHICS, WORKFORCE, GENDER, LABOR
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8554401
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- Van Laere, Katrien, and Michel Vandenbroeck. “The (in)Convenience of Care in Preschool Education : Examining Staff Views on Educare.” EARLY YEARS, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 4–18, doi:10.1080/09575146.2016.1252727.
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- Van Laere, K., & Vandenbroeck, M. (2018). The (in)convenience of care in preschool education : examining staff views on educare. EARLY YEARS, 38(1), 4–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1252727
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- Van Laere, Katrien, and Michel Vandenbroeck. 2018. “The (in)Convenience of Care in Preschool Education : Examining Staff Views on Educare.” EARLY YEARS 38 (1): 4–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1252727.
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- Van Laere, Katrien, and Michel Vandenbroeck. 2018. “The (in)Convenience of Care in Preschool Education : Examining Staff Views on Educare.” EARLY YEARS 38 (1): 4–18. doi:10.1080/09575146.2016.1252727.
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- 1.Van Laere K, Vandenbroeck M. The (in)convenience of care in preschool education : examining staff views on educare. EARLY YEARS. 2018;38(1):4–18.
- IEEE
- [1]K. Van Laere and M. Vandenbroeck, “The (in)convenience of care in preschool education : examining staff views on educare,” EARLY YEARS, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 4–18, 2018.
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journal = {{EARLY YEARS}},
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url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2016.1252727}},
volume = {{38}},
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}
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