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Aspects of quality in Greek day care centres

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The quality of the caregiving environment for young infants in day care centres in Athens was evaluated with 3 global measures; ITERS (Harms, Cryer, & Clifford, 1989), PROFILE (Abbott-Shim & Sibley, 1987a), CCFS (Dragonas, Tsiantis & Lambidi, 1995); and I measure of adult-child interaction (Arnett, 1989). Comparisons between the measures revealed great similarity of between the three global measures, but that the specific adult-child interaction measure appeared to be measuring a different aspect of quality of care. The general quality of care was low, lower than for other countries with similar research, and suggests the need for substantial improvement.

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La qualité éducative de l’environnement dans les centres pour jeunes enfants d’Athènes a fait l’objet de trois évaluations globales: ITERS (Harms, Cryer, & Clifford, 1989), PROFILE (Abbott-Shim & Sibley, 1987), CCFS (Dragonas, Tsiantis, & Lambidi, 1995); et d’une mesure des interactions adulte-enfant (Arnett, 1989). A la suite des comparaisons effectuées, il apparaît que les trois mesures globales sont très semblables mais que l’évaluation spécifique des interactions adulte-enfant appréhende un aspect différent de la qualité de la prise en charge. La qualité générale de la prise en charge s’est avérée faible, plus faible que dans les autres pays où des recherches similaires ont été effectuées; ce qui signale le besoin d’améliorations importantes.

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Petrogiannis, K., Melhuish, E.C. Aspects of quality in Greek day care centres. Eur J Psychol Educ 11, 177–191 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03172723

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