New Interdisciplinary Possibilities: Learning together in an early childhood lab school

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

“…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.…”

“…Practicums could take place before other forms of training [62] and they were completed simultaneously with other courses in a timeframe of 16 weeks. Other types of training (n = 8) that were described that could not be categorised in the aforementioned categories, because the descriptions of the concepts were unclear (n = 7), were hands-on experience, supervised field experience, practical (field) training and training in a monitored setting [40,55,[57][58][59]64,68]. Furthermore, apprenticeship arrangements were provided to preservice teachers in the bachelor's degree programme [36].…”