Academics versus service: Balancing competing missions in laboratory schools offering full‐day programming

Child Development Laboratory Schools as Generators of Knowledge in Early Childhood Education: New Models and Approaches

“…A third major challenge confronting lab schools as they struggle for continued existence is identifying mechanisms necessary to balance service and academic activities within their programs (Branscomb & McBride, 2005;McBride, 2009). To develop consistent sources of funding, many lab schools have found it necessary to respond to this need by expanding to full-day programming for young children.…”

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

“…ECEC programmes are conducted in ECEC centres [13]. In addition to conventional ECEC, separate programmes of open ECEC [14], also known as playgroups [15], engage parents in activities with their children. Education following ECEC is performed in schools [16].…”

“…According to McBride et al [22], to be called a laboratory school, it should implement at least one academic mission. This can include educational collaboration, research [33] and outreach efforts [15]. Educational collaboration includes many types of training, which should be defined more clearly and implemented more consistently among teacher education programmes, see [34].…”

“…In this article, practicum and internship are understood as types of supervised training, e.g., [32,35]. Instead, student teaching (in this article, preservice teaching) is understood as an experience that offers preservice teachers an opportunity to work in the university ECEC centre either under supervision, e.g., [15,31] or independently, e.g., [24,35]. In this article, outreach efforts are activities that aim to reach out to individuals outside the university ECEC centre.…”

“…In this article, outreach efforts are activities that aim to reach out to individuals outside the university ECEC centre. For example, collaborations with a university [15], local [33], national and international [36] partners are forms of outreach efforts. In line with Branscomb and McBride [15] and McBride et al [22], concepts of academic missions and academic functions are defined hierarchically in this article.…”