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TemaNord 2024:504
Early Childhood Education and Care
– an Investment in the Future
Early Childhood Education and Care – an Investment in the Future
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1. Aims of the working group
2. Defining the quality of early childhood education and care
3. Concise policy brief
4. Quantifying economic significance
4.1 What does Nordic research reveal about the causal impacts of early-life policies in shaping long-term outcomes?
5. Examples of quantifying economic impact and a system change
5.1 The prosperity act, Iceland
5.2 REFUD model in Denmark
5.3 Finland’s pre-primary education expansion experiment
6. Some examples of research
6.1 About families and ECEC
6.2 Assessing the impacts of home care allowance: Effects on parents and children
6.3 ECEC, integration and language learning
6.3.1 Enhancing language development for dual language learners (DLLs) in Norwegian ECEC
6.3.2 Examples of studies of language development and ECEC´s role in Denmark
6.4 ECEC and supporting children´s development before school age and in the long term
7. Shortage of ECEC Teachers
8. Data on ECEC in the Nordic countries