The Accessibility, Quality, and Administration of Childcare Services for Birth to 3 Years under China’s Universal Two-child Policy

Hong, Xiumin; Liu, Qianqian; Zhang, Mingzhu; Li, Hui

doi:10.1080/10409289.2021.1943639

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“…ECEC service consists of two levels in China, with nurseries and kindergartens providing childcare and education services for children aged 0-3 and 3-6. In 2010, the central government launched a new wave of national campaigns to tackle the '3A' problems (accessibility, accountability, affordability) that had plagued the ECEC sector for decades, causing parents' widespread unsatisfaction with the country's ECEC provision [49,50]. Since then, raising the overall and domain-specific quality of ECEC has become of paramount importance for kindergartens, families, local governments, and the nation.…”

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Emotional Labor and Professional Identity in Chinese Early Childhood Teachers: The Gendered Moderation Models

Xie

Liang

2022

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The sustainable development of early childhood institutions in aging China calls for the sustainable development of early childhood teachers, which should attend to the balanced development between male and female teachers. Yet this issue has not been adequately investigated in the literature. To fill this research gap, this study explored the gender differences in Chinese early childhood (EC) teachers’ professional identity (PI) and emotional labor strategies. Altogether, 250 teachers (146 female and 104 male, Mage= 30.28 years, SD = 7.81) from Southern China were sampled and surveyed. First, the independent samples t-tests revealed significant gender differences in teachers’ PI, deep acting, and surface acting. Second, the structural equation modelling results demonstrated that PI fully mediated the relationship between teacher educational attainment, years of teaching experience, and natural and deep acting. Third, multigroup analysis confirmed different mediation paths for female and male teachers. These findings suggest that male and female early childhood teachers differed in their sense of PI and use of emotional labor strategies. Therefore, future policymaking efforts should design and implement teacher professional development (PD) programs and teacher support mechanisms catering to male EC teachers’ needs, characteristics, and difficulties in the Chinese EC workforce.

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Emotional Labor and Professional Identity in Chinese Early Childhood Teachers: The Gendered Moderation Models

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Liang

2022

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“…The majority of educators in childcare settings hold qualification certificates applicable to other education segments or other types of services, such as preschool teacher certificate, nursery governess certificate, and baby care certificate, none of which is entirely suitable for work in a childcare institution. Process quality, as measured by ITERS-R is relatively low according to a recent study (Hong et al, 2022b). Childcare educators lack professional knowledge and skills to provide quality experiences for young children and interact with them in a responsive and supportive way.…”

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How to ensure the sustainable supply of childcare educators: factors influencing student teachers’ career choice

Wang,

Liu,

Qiu

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Front. Educ.

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IntroductionGuided by the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice (FIT-Choice) model, this study investigates the career choices of student teachers majoring in childcare and analyses the factors influencing their career choices to address the teacher recruitment issue in the childcare industry in China.MethodsA total of 444 participants from vocational colleges were selected, and questionnaires were used to ask about their career choice intention and the influencing factors.Results and discussionThe FIT-Choice model is theoretically acceptable, although the subscales for personal utility value should be reformulated. Students majoring in childcare have a positive but weak intention to become childcare educators. Their career choice intentions are jointly influenced by their social influences, task perceptions, values and fallback career, with task perceptions and values playing mediating roles between social influences and career choice intentions.

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“…children under age 3 in China, only 5.5% of them have been enrolled in nurseries (Hong, 2020), and this data increase to 83.4% when the children were 3-6 years old (Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2020). Therefore, in grandparents with grandchildren less than 3 years old, they were the primary caregiver for their grandchildren and the caring burden may be same and comparable (Sun & Zhang, 2013).…”

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“…To fill this knowledge gap, a cross‐sectional study was conducted to examine the influence of migration status on the relationship between grandparenting and psychological stress in elderly people involved in grandparenting. There were studies indicated that, in children under age 3 in China, only 5.5% of them have been enrolled in nurseries (Hong, 2020), and this data increase to 83.4% when the children were 3–6 years old (Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2020). Therefore, in grandparents with grandchildren less than 3 years old, they were the primary caregiver for their grandchildren and the caring burden may be same and comparable (Sun & Zhang, 2013).…”

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Childcare burden and psychological distress among elderly people involved in grandparenting: A study on local and migrant grandparents in Hangzhou, China

Wang

Gao

Guo

et al. 2022

Health Social Care Comm

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Grandparenting is known to impact psychological health in older people. However, the extent to which the effect is altered by migration‐related and sociodemographic determinants is less clear. Therefore, we conducted this cross‐sectional study to investigate whether the association between grandparenting and psychological distress differs between rural–urban migrants and local older adults from May to September 2019. A total of 373 rural–urban migrants and 602 local older adults involved in grandparenting in Hangzhou completed measurements assessing sociodemographic characteristics, childcare burden and psychological distress. In total, 22.2% of the grandparents reported psychological distress. Rural–urban migrant grandparents had a lower socioeconomic status (SES), a higher childcare burden (23.6 ± 9.2 vs. 20.7 ± 9.5, p < 0.001) and higher levels of psychological distress (29.8% vs. 17.4%, p < 0.001) than local grandparents. Childcare burden and pressure from adult children were the most significant predictors for psychological distress in both groups (ps < 0.05). Psychological distress was also significantly associated with self‐rated health status (β = −0.276, p = 0.033) and willingness to participate in grandparenting (β = −0.659, p = 0.024) in migrant grandparents but associated with female gender (β = 0.346, p = 0.022), caring for children at night (β = 0.424, p = 0.011), conflict with adult children (β = 0.432, p < 0.001) and annual income (β = −0.237, p < 0.001) in local grandparents. Migrant status showed a statistically significant moderating effect between childcare burden and psychological distress. These results may be of assistance in comprehensively understanding the social determinants of mental health of grandparents involved in grandparenting.

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The Accessibility, Quality, and Administration of Childcare Services for Birth to 3 Years under China’s Universal Two-child Policy

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

Emotional Labor and Professional Identity in Chinese Early Childhood Teachers: The Gendered Moderation Models

Emotional Labor and Professional Identity in Chinese Early Childhood Teachers: The Gendered Moderation Models

How to ensure the sustainable supply of childcare educators: factors influencing student teachers’ career choice

Childcare burden and psychological distress among elderly people involved in grandparenting: A study on local and migrant grandparents in Hangzhou, China

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