Structural, Process and Curriculum Quality of Day Care and Preschool Provisions in the Netherlands

Elyse van de Riet; Pauline Slot

doi:10.18778/2450-4491.05.10

Auteurs

Elyse van de Riet Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University
Pauline Slot Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18778/2450-4491.05.10

Mots-clés :

Early Childhood Education and Care, structural quality, process quality, CLASS Toddler, curriculum, caregivers

Résumé

The presented study investigated the structural, process and curriculum quality in Dutch Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system. Teachers (N = 46) completed a structured questionnaire about the teacher, classroom and center characteristics. Furthermore, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Toddler was used to measure the process quality in 28 Dutch day care and preschool provisions considered to be good practices. Results regarding structural quality revealed small significant differences between day care and preschool provisions for teacher’s educational level, children-to-teacher ratio, and classroom composition. As regards process quality, the results showed moderate to high Emotional Support and moderate levels of Support for Learning in both types. No significant differences were identified in process quality between day care and preschool classrooms. Finally, the teachers reported placing the greatest emphasis on activities involving pretend play, self-regulation and language and fewer opportunities concerning literacy, maths and science activities, with no significant differences between the two provisions.

Biographies des auteurs

Elyse van de Riet, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University

M.Sc., a junior researcher from 2015 to 2017 at the department of Child, Family and Education Studies of the Utrecht University. She has been involved in various projects focusing on quality of Early Childhood Education and Care in the Netherlands, where she has mainly focused on the professionalization of teacher-child interactions.
Pauline Slot, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University

Ph.D., a researcher at the department of Child, Family and Education Studies of the Utrecht University. She is involved in national and international research projects into curriculum, structural and process quality in ECEC and relations with child development. Her interests concern professionalization, diversity and inclusiveness.

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