Journal article
Too late and not enough for some children: early childhood education and care (ECEC) program usage patterns in the years before school in Australia
T Gilley, C Tayler, F Niklas, D Cloney
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy | Published : 2015
Abstract
This paper uses data from a major Australian longitudinal study to test the extent to which children recruited on the basis of attending an early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting when they were 3–4 years of age received an ‘optimal’ dosage of education and care. The idea of an optimal dosage is drawn from research literature on what level of dosage leads to improved learning and development outcomes for children. This dosage level is then compared with the actual level received by Australian children, through examining the age of entry of Australian children into ECEC and the number of hours of education and care they receive before school entry. Key predictors of the total hours ..
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Awarded by German Academic Exchange Service London
Funding Acknowledgements
E4Kids is a project of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and is conducted in partnership with Queensland University of Technology. E4Kids is funded by the Australian Research Councils Linkage Projects Scheme (Grant LP0990200), the Victorian Department of Education and Training and the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment. E4kids is conducted with academic collaboration with the University of Toronto, Scarborough, the Institute of Education at the University of London and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. E4Kids thanks the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This work was also supported by a fellowship within the Postdoctoral Programme of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD).