Assessing Birth to Age 5 Teaching Methods at a University Laboratory School

An Integrative Literature Review of University-Based Early Childhood Education and Care Centres within Early Childhood Teacher Education Settings

“…In the United States, the qualification of the ECEC teacher can be accomplished in universities and community colleges [20,21] in several programmes at associate [21], bachelor's and master's degree levels [22]. In the United States, the qualification for an ECEC teacher is not necessary when teaching children aged from birth to five years [23,24]. In this article, the term university, in the context of teacher education, refers to all units that offer EC teacher education programmes.…”

“…The top right quadrant represents approximately 64% (n = 34) of the centres. These university ECEC centres implemented academic functions in their daily activities [3,15,18,23,24,31,32,35,36,40,43,[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] and are reviewed in Section 3.2.…”

“…Child development center 1 Karen Slattery Educational Research Center for Child Development [57]; The campus laboratory school child development center 1 [23]; Harold E. Jones Child Study Center [61]; GMU Child Development Center [40]; Virginia Tech Child Development Lab School [35] Child development laboratory school 1 [59] Botanical Garden Room 1 [24]; Experimental Greenhouse Room 1 [24]; Wildflower Valley Room 1 [24]; Harold E. Jones Child Study Center [66] 1 Pseudonym or the type of centre, if the name was not mentioned in a publication; 2 According to the publication, the centre is not operating anymore.…”