Samantha Burns
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Providing more flexible work options for women
Flexible work helps women achieve a more sustainable work-life balance, but they have less access to those options than men. Could the pandemic...
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Navigating Technology in the classroom
A scoping review of technology use during peer collaboration in early educational settings. Early educational settings such as early childhood...
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Cultivating Young Minds
Creativity and self-directed learning (SDL) have been identified as two key skills that children need to develop for success in the 21st century. As...
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Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice
Many children in Canada and the United States experience poor-quality child care on a regular basis. Under the rubric of “parent choice,”...
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Improving young children’s peer collaboration in early educational settings
Peer collaboration is a foundational skill that emerges in early childhood. Children spend significant time in early educational settings, making it...
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Child care policy and child care burden
The policy feedback literature highlights that the design of public policies can affect recipients’ experience of those policies and programs. In...
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Beyond the mask: Decoding children’s mental health patterns amidst COVID-19 and the role of parenting
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on children and families worldwide. Children’s mental health has been at the forefront of...
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Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Scoping Review
Creativity has been identified as one of the most important skills of the 21st century. The development of creativity begins at an early age. Given...
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Defining Peer Collaboration: A scoping review and network analysis
Peer collaboration is a complex skill that emerges in early childhood. However, researchers and practitioners lack a shared understanding/definition...
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Both Me and My Daughter Would Cry Sometimes: Parents’ and Children’s Experiences with Home Education During the Early and Later COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions to children’s education across the globe, including abrupt transitions from in-person...
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Teaching problem-solving skills in early childhood education and care settings: A focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesised evidence on teaching problem-solving skills to children in early childhood education and care...
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Assessing Educator Responsivity in Outdoor Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
Outdoor time is essential in early childhood education, yet quality assessments that are specifically focused on outdoor settings remain limited....
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“It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it”: Understanding parental knowledge and experiences of Canada’s new child care policy
Starting in 2021/2022, Canada implemented a new early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care...
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Enhancing Children’s Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Systematic Review and Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Studies Between 1969 and 2019
This study integrates evidence on the effectiveness of interventions within early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings that aimed to promote...
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Cultivating young minds: Exploring the relationship between child socio-emotional competence, early childhood education and care quality, creativity and self-directed learning
Creativity and self-directed learning (SDL) have been identified as two key skills that children need to develop for success in the 21st century. As...
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Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis
Inequalities that emerged during COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to examine parent constraints in their decision-making around work and early...
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Information effects on parental choices for early childhood education and care
Existing research demonstrates that parents are poorly informed consumers of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Choosing such...
Mailing Address
Department of Management
University of Toronto Scarborough
UTSC Instructional Centre
1095 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
