Teacher work environments are toddler learning environments: teacher professional well-being,classroom emotional support,and toddlers’ emotional expressions and behaviours |
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Authors: | Deborah J Cassidy Elizabeth K King Yudan C Wang Joanna K Lower Victoria L Kintner-Duffy |
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Institution: | Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | The current study examines the professional well-being of teachers, the classroom emotional support, and the emotional experiences of toddlers in their care. Professional well-being of teachers is conceptualized to include teacher feelings about their work, autonomy in decision-making, actual wages, and perceptions of fairness of wages within the programme as well as within the early childhood profession at large. The study empirically supports relationships among teacher professional well-being, classroom emotional support, and the emotional expressions and behaviours of toddlers. Early childhood policy implications regarding teacher professional well-being and toddler classroom emotional environments are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Childcare teacher work environments toddlers |
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