Quality of Structure and Teacher–Child Relationship: A Kindergarten–Childcare Services Comparison in Two Countries

Studies underlined the crucial importance of teacher–child relationship quality for children’s development in early childhood education (ECE) (Sabol, Bohlmann and Downer, 2018). However, results regarding structural variables that explain those relationships, in particular at an international level, remain much less consistent (Hartman, Warash, Curtis and Hirst, 2016). Some reported a link between process-based variables with training and...