Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education

Introduction: International Perspectives on Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education; Susanne Garvis & Hillevi Lenz Taguchi.- 1. Improving the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care in Oman; Ali Kemal Tekin, Laila Al Salmi & Ibrahim Qaryouti.- 2. Enhancing quality for infants and toddlers through effective teaching practices: A New Zealand perspectiv; Karyn Aspden.- 3. Quality in ECE in Iran: what the concept "quality" mean and how it is being assessed, reported and improved; Ebrahim Talaee.- 4. Perspectives on Quality in ECEC - A content Analysis on First Year Teacher Students Views in Finland; Marina Lundkvist & Heidi Harju-Luukkainen.- 5. Developmental work (Norwegian - Utviklingsarbeid) as student driven quality improvements in ECEC settings; Alicja R. Sadownik.- 6. Quality monitoring in daycare centers - discourses, concepts and experiences in German early childhood education and care; Stefan Faas & Sabine Dahlheimer.- 7. Development of preschool teacher's competences as a way to increase the ECE quality in Russia; Igor Shiyan, Olga Shiyan & Tatiana Le-van.- 8. Quantity vs. Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care in The Context of Turkey; Belkis Tekman.- 9.Continuous Improvement in Early Childhood Pedagogical Practice - The Victorian Advancing Early Learning (VAEL) Study in Australia; Patricia Eadie & Jane Page.- 10. Neuroscientific approaches to optimize self-regulatory skills in children from backgrounds of poverty in different cultural contexts in Argentina and the United States; Sebastián Lipina & Eric Pakulak.- 11. Quality improvement in Sweden; Susanne Garvis, Pia Williams & Sonja Sheridan.- 12. Evaluating quality in Finnish early childhood education; Johanna Heikka & Elina Fonsen Quality assessment and challenge of preschool education in China; Yan ZhangConclusion: What can we learn looking across the countries?