Early childhood educators' well-being: An updated review of the literature

T Cumming - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017 - Springer
Researchers are increasingly recognising the connections between early childhood
educators' well-being and their capacity for providing high quality education and care. The …

When fulfillment is not enough: Early childhood teacher occupational burnout and turnover intentions from a job demands and resources perspective

DD Schaack, VN Le, J Stedron - Early Education and Development, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Research Findings: This study examined the job demands and job resources of
a sample of 273 early childhood teachers in Colorado. The study explored the relationships …

Reproducing (and disrupting) heteronormativity: Gendered sexual socialization in preschool classrooms

HM Gansen - Sociology of Education, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Using ethnographic data from 10 months of observations in nine preschool classrooms, I
examine gendered sexual socialization children receive from teachers' practices and …

[HTML][HTML] Early childhood teachers' emotional labour: The role of job and personal resources in protecting well-being

S Carey, A Sutton - Teaching and Teacher Education, 2024 - Elsevier
Emotional labour, the regulation and management of emotions, is a significant element of
the teaching role yet it may damage teacher well-being. In this cross-sectional study (N= 320 …

Early childhood professional well-being as a predictor of the risk of turnover in child care: A matter of quality

MB McMullen, MSC Lee, KI McCormick… - Journal of Research in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Annually, approximately 27% of early childhood care and education professionals turnover,
or leave their positions or the field, which may negatively impact quality in two ways. First …

Identifying predictors of retention and professional wellbeing of the early childhood education workforce in a time of change

K Thorpe, E Jansen, V Sullivan, S Irvine… - Journal of educational …, 2020 - Springer
The international agenda for quality improvement in early childhood education and care
(ECEC) has driven policies targeting workforce professionalisation. Increased training and …

Transition services for young children with disabilities: Research and future directions

BS Rous, RA Hallam - Topics in Early Childhood Special …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The study of transition process for young children with disabilities and their families is
complex. This complexity is reflected in efforts by researchers and policy makers to …

Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network

D Bryant, N Yazejian, W Jang, L Kuhn… - Early Childhood …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study of a large sample of classroom teaching staff at 23 early childhood schools across
the US serving children birth to age 5 used survival analysis to investigate both the timing of …

First-year preschool and kindergarten teachers: Challenges of working with parents.

S Mahmood - School community journal, 2013 - ERIC
The significance of relationships between the parents and teachers of preschool and
kindergarten children is well established. Teachers and schools are presumed to be …

Workforce well-being: Personal and workplace contributions to early educators' depression across settings

AM Roberts, KC Gallagher, AM Daro, IU Iruka… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
Building on research demonstrating the importance of teachers' well-being, this study
examined personal and contextual factors related to early childhood educators'(n= 1640) …