The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programme conducts analysis and develops new data to support countries in reviewing and improving their early childhood services and systems.

For most children, early childhood education and care (ECEC) provides the first experience of life in a group away from their families. This experience plays a crucial role in children’s learning, development and well-being. The benefits of high-quality ECEC …

How Do Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Policies, Systems and Quality Vary Across OECD Countries? In many OECD countries, ECEC services have increased in response to a growing demand for better learning outcomes as well as growing female labour force participation.

This interactive platform supports the study and measurement of factors shaping quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Children’s learning, development and well-being are directly influenced by their daily interactions with other children, adults, their families and the environment, known as process quality.

specific quality and policy issues of ECEC provision for children under the age of three. The delivery of ECEC services for children under the age of 3 involves, in many countries, diverse types of provision, often including regulated home-based ECEC (Ang and Tabu, 2018 [5]

The OECD Starting Strong publication series provides comparable international information on early childhood education and care (ECEC) to support countries in their review and redesign of policies to strengthen their delivery of quality services.

All OECD member countries have committed to put a stronger national focus on ECEC (OECD, 2001) and the financial investments in ECEC systems have increased in many countries as will be outlined in more detail in chapter 3.

The five policy levers are instrumental drivers for building ECEC systems that foster quality in children’s everyday experiences from their interactions with their environment.

oecd的这一工作论文是其正在开展的“国际早期学习和儿童幸福研究”（iels）成果之一。 该研究由OECD国家发起的，其基本目标是向各国提供可靠、有效和可比的数据，供各国用来衡量和监测其制度在使所有儿童及早获得良好开端方面的表现。

This literature review examines the research on early childhood education and care (ECEC) leadership and how leaders impact process quality in ECEC settings. Process quality refers to interactions and relationships between and among children and ECEC staff, and is a strong predictor of children’s learning, development and well-being.