Preschool Teacher Well-Being: A Review of the Literature

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ConfirmingChanclas: What Early Childhood Teacher Educators Can Learn From Immigrant Preschool Teachers

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Retention of Staff in the Early Childhood Education Workforce

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Preschool teachers’ narratives: a window on personal‐professional history, values and beliefs

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Persecutory Guilt, Surveillance and Resistance: The Emotional Themes of Early Childhood Educators

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Critical viewpoint to early childhood education teachers' well-being at work

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Perceptions of well‐being among child care teachers

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Early Childhood Teachers Coping with Educational Change

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Using pressure and support to create a qualified workforce.

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What do teachers need? Practitioners' perspectives on early childhood professional development

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Teacher well-being: A systematic review of the research literature from the year 2000–2019

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Teachers’ Social–Emotional Capacity: Factors Associated With Teachers’ Responsiveness and Professional Commitment

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Early Childhood Teachers’ Psychological Well-Being: Exploring Potential Predictors of Depression, Stress, and Emotional Exhaustion

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Early childhood educators' well-being: An updated review of the literature

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Wellbeing: innovative transfer in the education ecosystem

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Preschool Teachers' Professional Well-Being as a Multidimensional Foundation of School Resilience

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Preschool Teachers’ Lives and Work: Stories and Studies from the Field

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Preschool Teachers’ Lives and Work

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