Interaction Archive
Interaction is the Canadian Child Care Federation’s flagship publication read by practitioners from coast to coast to coast for over 25 years. Articles are written by practitioners and other experts on topics that are of the utmost importance to those working with children and their families. Members can visit the linked archives below to read articles on a wide variety of topics.
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Featured Stories
- CCCF Turns 30
- After 30 Years – How is Child Care in Canada Doing and Where to Next?
- The Impact of Parenting on Child Outcomes: What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know
- Parent’s Perspectives on the Role of Drop-in Programs in Building Child-Parent Attachment
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- Forest Preschool and Nature-Based Child Care
- Professional Development in Early Childhood Environments
- Supporting Intentional Reflective Practices Through the Integration of Technology
- The Early Childhood Practitioner’s Role in Fostering Pre & Postnatal Development
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Featured Stories
- Who Are Our Emerging Leaders in ECE and Child Care?
- Stories from a Forest Kindergarten: Planting Seeds for our Time
- An Economic No-Brainer: The Employment, Income and Fiscal Benefits of Universal ECE
- Sowing the Seeds of Self-Regulation in the Infant and Toddler Years
- Documenting Life: Connecting Children, Parents and Educators in an Online Community with a Child Care Documentation Tool — Storypark
- How Holistic Education and its Philosophy Promotes Transformative Literacy
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- From Tragedy to Trajectory – Ontario’s Changing Landscape in Child Care Regulations
- The $10/Day Child Care Plan for British Columbia: A Plan That Belongs to the Community
- Moving Forward on Early Learning and Child Care in Manitoba
- Early Childhood Educators in Prince Edward Island
- Finally Being at Home
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Featured Stories
- How Child Care Supports Families in Canada
- Generation Squeeze: How Affordable Child Care is a Key Part of the Policy Solution to Support Families
- It’s Time to Rethink Child Care
- Caring for Families of the Canadian Military
- How Child Care Supports Families in Canada
- Generation Squeeze: How Affordable Child Care is a Key Part of the Policy Solution to Support Families
- It’s Time to Rethink Child Care
- Caring for Families of the Canadian Military
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Featured Stories
- Caring for Aboriginal Children
- Inunnguiniq – Inuit Child Rearing That Builds on Cultural Strengths
- “Salmon Speaks” at Grand Coulee Dam
- Integrating Aboriginal Culture into Your Child Care Setting – 10 Ways to Weave it into Your Program
- Walk a Mile in Their Shoes – ECE Reflections Working in a Remote Métis Community
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Featured Stories
- Child Care in a Wired World
- Integrating Technology and Social Media Tools to Enhance Learning and Collaboration Among ECCE Students
- Discussion Issues in ECE: Using Webcams in Child Care
- Robert Johnson Made a Deal with the Devil – An ECE Instructor’s Introspective Account on How Technology Can Be Used to Express Our Potential
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Featured Stories
- Promoting Children’s Health in Child Care
- Promoting Healthy Eating Habits in Children
- Controlling Food Safety Issues in Child Care Settings
- Creating Healthy Environments for Kids: Simple Actions Can Reduce Children’s Exposures to Toxic Chemicals
- Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines for Preschool-aged Children: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We’re Doing About It
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- Nurturing Creativity in Children
- Painting as a Colour Experience
- Identical Ladybugs
- To Evaluate or Not to Evaluate Preschool Development – That is the Question?
- Igniting the Fire of Teacher Creativity: Mothercraft College Students Talk About Their Training in the Arts
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Featured Stories
- Including All Children in ECE
- My Quiet Boy: My Journey From Practitioner to Parent to Advocate
- It’s All About Them! How a Child-directed, Play-based Curriculum Facilitates Inclusive Practice
- Assessing Inclusion Quality: What Gets Measured Counts!
- Communicating with Children Effectively About Diversity and Inclusion
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Featured Stories
- Profiling Cross-Cultural Initiatives
- The Importance of Arts in ECE Around the Globe – A Universal Right
- A Model for Canada — A Look at European Union Policy on Early Childhood Education and Care
- Exploring Reggio Emilia
- Indonesia Early Childhood Development (IECD): A Cross-Cultural and Inter-Professional Initiative
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Featured Stories
- Connecting Children to Nature – Part 2 – Greening Child Care
- Pollinating our Passion for the Outdoors: Working in a Community of Researchers, Educators and Children for Natural Landscapes
- Getting Back to our Ancestral Heart: Inviting Nature into the Child Care Environment
- Aniingngualaurtaa – Let’s Play Outside – Nunavik
- Back Yard Project: Developing an Appreciation of Nature by Living, Growing, Re-using and Recycling at Sonshine Daycare
- Building a Tree Circle
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Featured Stories
- Connecting Children to Nature – Part 1
- Healing the Wound: Reconnecting Children with Nature
- Outdoors, All Day — Walk Through a Forest Preschool
- A Perfect, Finished Product
- Forest Preschools — ECE in the Natural World: Learning through Experience, Play and Environmental Stewardship
- Organic Gardening in the Child Care Setting
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Featured Stories
- Supporting Our Children’s Social Well-Being: Child Care Practitioners and Families as Partners
- Supporting Our Children’s Social Well-Being: Practitioners and Families as Partners
- Welcoming Families as Partners in Child Care
- Practitioners and Families Together: Encouraging Positive Behaviour
- Language, Literacy and Social Development: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
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Featured Stories
- School-Age Child Care: Where Does it Fit in the Child Care Patchwork?
- The Middle Years Matter: Toward a Policy Framework Building a Caring and Supportive Community: Setting the Stage for Positive Social Behaviours
- Media Education: Giving School-Age Children Essential Skills in an Information Age
- An Innovative Project to Address School-Age Child Care Training in Québec
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Featured Stories
- Innovative Approaches in ECE: An International Dialogue
- Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education in North America: A Brief Introduction
- Transforming Early Childhood Curriculum: Educators Making Curriculum, Making Change
- Reflections on Meaning Making with Early Childhood Educators
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Featured Stories
- Highlights of Current Research on Quality
- Broadening and Deepening Definitions of Best Practices in the Canadian Early Childhood Development Profession
- Why is High-Quality Child Care Essential? The Link between Quality Child Care and Early Learning
- Supporting Quality in Family Child Care: What Does the Research Tell Us?
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Featured Stories
- Bridging the Silos: Education – Child Care
- The Unhurried Child: Visioning an Integrated System
- Nova Scotia Pre-Primary Pilot: Delivered by Education, Taught by ECEs
- “A Child is a Child is a Child”: Manitoba’s Educaring Model
- A Seamless Day: The First Duty Approach
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