Teacher-Child Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care Classrooms

The book focuses on issues in early childhood education and care regarding characteristics, dependencies, predictivity and methods that are currently discussed. It provides an excellent overview of interdisciplinary research of teacher-child interactions in preschools in Europe.

Wilfried Smidt is a Full Professor of education at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on educational quality, teacher personality, professionalization, and leadership. Simone Lehrl is a Researcher at the University of Bamberg, Germany. Her research focuses on educational quality and its effects on children's development.

Introduction: Teacher-child interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care classrooms: characteristics, predictivity, dependency and methodological issues Wilfried Smidt & Simone Lehrl Chapter 1: Evaluating the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale in the Greek educational setting: an item parcelling perspective, Nikolaos Tsigilis, Athanasios Gregoriadis & Vasilis Grammatikopoulos Chapter 2: The quality of caregiver-child interactions in infant classrooms in Portugal: the role of caregiver education, Sílvia Barros, Joana Cadima, Ana Isabel Pinto, Donna M. Bryant, Manuela Pessanha, Carla Peixoto & Vera Coelho Chapter 3: Pedagogical differences and similarities between male and female educators, and their impact on boys' and girls' behaviour in early childhood education and care institutions in Austria, Johannes Huber & Bernd Traxl Chapter 4: The role of professional exchange in improving language-related process quality in daycare centres, Elisabeth Resa, Imke Groeneveld, Daniel Turani & Yvonne Anders Chapter 5: Differential effects of preschool quality on children's emergent literacy skills in the final preschool year in Germany, Simone Lehrl & Wilfried Smidt Chapter 6: Development of pre-academic skills and motivation in kindergarten: a subgroup analysis between classroom quality profiles, Jenni Salminen, Eija Pakarinen, Anna-Maija Poikkeus & Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen Chapter 7: Bilingual children's language learning in Australian early childhood education and care settings, Frank Niklas, Collette Tayler & Caroline Cohrssen