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Title: For the Profession and For Ourselves: The Effect of Higher Education Requirements on the American Early Childhood Education Workforce
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: How does higher education shape the American early childhood education workforce? Relying on the quantitative analysis of a nationally representative data set and the policy scan of state early childhood education center staffing requirements, this analysis establishes that the low levels of education in the early childhood education workforce are the confluence of historical and gendered norms surrounding early childhood education and policy trends of formalized education requirements for early childhood education teachers. Interviews with 15 early childhood education teachers reveal that these low levels of education both reflect and reproduce the lack of professionalization in the early childhood workforce. While degree programs of higher education often provide valuable experience and mentors to early childhood education teachers, policy trends of raising higher education requirements mandate individual teachers to take on the burden of professionalizing the workforce as a whole.
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Authors: Dermody, Caitlin Mary
Institution: Yale University
Department: Sociology
Advisor: Carla Horwitz
Degree: B.A.
Publisher Location: New Haven, CT
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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