Quality in Home-Based Childcare Providers: Variations in Process Quality

Autor/inn/en	Vandenbroeck, Michel; Slot, Pauline; Hulpia, Hester
Titel	Quality in Home-Based Childcare Providers: Variations in Process Quality
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 29 (2021) 2, S.261-277 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2021.1895272
Schlagwörter	Child Care; Family Environment; Educational Quality; Classroom Environment; Foreign Countries; Caregiver Child Relationship; Emotional Response; Toddlers; Food; Play; Infants; Supervision; Caregiver Training; Work Experience; Belgium; Classroom Assessment Scoring System + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Familienmilieu; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Ausland; Emotionales Verhalten; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Lebensmittel; Spiel; Toddlers; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Belgien
Abstract	Child care quality in general, and caregiver-child interactions in particular, are salient predictors of children's outcomes. While the importance of process quality is well known, the complex relations between structural quality and process quality are far less researched in family child care, compared to centre based child care. Flanders shows unique features to do so, considering its high enrolment rates of the youngest children and its large share of licenced family child care. We studied the emotional and educational process quality in 200 family child care providers in Flanders, Belgium, using CLASS Infant and CLASS Toddler. The results suggest that educational dimensions are significantly poorer than emotional aspects of caregiver-child interactions. Educational quality appeared the lowest in eating and snack time situations and for toddlers also in free play. While structural features partly explained variations in process quality, it is hardly possible to attribute this to single variables. However, some structural features seem to matter more than others. Pre-service training and supervision mattered, while years of experience did not. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01