Related ECE Research

Several organizations are engaged in research focusing on child care and related issues. Review the information below for details:

• Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU): This organization focuses on child care research and policy resources. It houses a wealth of information and studies on child care in Canada and around the world.
• Child Care Policy.net: This site features research on child care policy and the economic impacts of, and arguments for, early learning and child care.
• Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development(CEECD): This organization focuses on scientific knowledge about the social and emotional development of young children, and the policies and services that influence it.
• The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) has produced recent studies that include:
  • For-profit child care: Past, present and future (2005) and
  • From Patch Work to Framework: A Child Care Strategy for Canada (2004).
• Canadian Child Care Federation: Research Connections Canada Series: This bilingual occasional publication series contains an anthology of current Canadian early childhood research and development papers.
• Integration Network Project: This organization explores policy options needed to bring about the integration of education and child care for children of kindergarten age.
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): This organization has a web site that reviews the early childhood policies published by 20 countries between 1998 and 2004. On the site, entitled Early Childhood and Education and Care, you will find the Canadian Background Report in English and in French.
• SpeciaLink: This resource and research helpline provides personalized responses to specific questions, referrals to other organizations, and sources of help, information and technical assistance to young children who have special needs and their families.
• Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre: This organization, based in British Columbia, maintains the province's most comprehensive collection of materials on child development and early childhood education and care.
• Canadian Council on Learning: Early Childhood Knowledge Centre