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Jan Peeters
Dr. Jan Peeters is the coordinator of the Research and Resource Centre for Early Childhood Education and Care of the Department of Social Welfare Studies at the Ghent University (Belgium).
He acquired a PhD on ‘An international perspective on professionalism in ECE in Flanders’ in 2008. He has been promoting several innovative transnational Early Childhood Education and Care action-research projects since 1992 and has written numerous articles and has given since many years presentations on international conferences on professionalism, gender, poverty and diversity in the early years. Together with other international colleagues, he founded in 1998 the European DECET network on Diversity and professional development in ECE.
He is the author of two books on professionalism, one in English on ECE in New Zealand, France, England and Denmark: 'The Construction of a New Profession' (2008) and one in Dutch on professionalism in Flanders in an international perspective: 'De Warme professional' (2008). He organised a European conference in 2008 in Brussels: ‘Quality jobs for ECE’.
He is co-founder (2001) of the European magazine Children in Europe, a joint publication in 15 languages, that is distributed in 18 countries and he is since 10 years member of the editorial board. He was the guest editor of an issue on professionalism: ‘Aiming high: a professional workforce for the early years’ with contributions from renowed experts of 10 different countries.
He worked as advisor for the OECD Network Starting Strong from 2006 till 2008. He is elected in the board of the international Step by Step Association, an Eastern European and Central Asian ECE Network of 27 countries.
He was involved in several international research projects: the UNESCO-project ‘Learning and Caring together’, the Seepro project on professionalism in Europe and together with prof. Michel Vandenbroeck and dr. Mathias Urban (East London University) he is involved in the European Commission study on Competencies in Early Childhood Education (CoRe research project), that started early 2010 and will publish the results in spring 2011.
Bibliography
Peeters, J. (2007a). Including Men in Early Childhood Education: Insights from the European Experience. New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education, 10, 15-24.
Peeters, J. (2008). The construction of a new profession. A European perspective on professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care. Amsterdam: SWP Publishers.
Vandenbroeck, M. Pirard, F. & Peeters, J. (2009). New developments in Belgian childcare policy and practice. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (17)3, 408-416
Peeters, J. (2009). Qualitätspolitik im System der frühkindlichen Bildung, Erziehung und Betreuung in Flandern: von „Top-down“ zu „Bottum-up“ In K. Altgeld & S. Stöbe-Blossey Qualitätsmanagement in der frühkindlichen Bildung, Erziehung und Betreuung. Perspektiven für eine öffentliche Qualitätspolitik. (pp. 205-223). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN 978 3 531 16008 5
Peeters, J. Pirard, F. , Bouvy, A. Buysse, B. (2010). Country report Belgium. In Oberhuemer, P., Schreyer, I. & Neuman J. Professionals in early childhood education and care systems. European profiles and perspectives. Opladen & Farminghton Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Peeters, J., Vandenbroeck M. (2010). Caring and Learning Together: A Case Study of Ghent. The Flemish Community of Belgium. Early Childhood and Family Policy Series. N° 20. Paris: UNESCO
Peeters, J. (2010). Le professionalisme dans les services des jeunes enfants en Europe. In Schronen D. ed. Niederigqualifizierte in Bildungsstrukturen- Les expériences 201-2010. Luxembourg: Conféderation caritas. 46-55. ISBN 978-2-919974-09-2
Peeters, J. (2010). The role of ECEC services and professionals in addressing poverty and promoting social inclusion. In Early Childhood education and Care services in European Union Countries Inclusion. Proceedings of the ChildOnEurope Seminar and integrated review. Firenze: European Network on Observatories of Childhood.
Peeters, J. (2010). Le professionalism dans les services aux jeunes enfants en Europe. Le Furet 61(1) 18-20.
Peeters J, Vandenbroeck (2011). Child care practitioners and the Process of professionalization. In Miller & Cable Professionalization and Management in the Early Years London: Sage 62-74. ISBN 13: 9781849205542 - ISBN 10: 184920554X
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