Teacher education, motivation, compensation, workplace support, and links to quality of center-based child care and teachers' intention to stay in the early childhood profession

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-275

  Torquati, Julia C ^a   Raikes, Helen ^a   Huddleston Casas, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care quality; Compensation; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547880044     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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