Retaining Early Childhood Education Workers: A Review of the Empirical Literature

By C. Totenhagen, S. Hawkins, Deborah M. Casper, Leslie A. Bosch, Kyle R. Hawkey, L. Borden. 2016

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Early Childhood Professional Well-Being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Child Care: A Matter of Quality (2020, background): “Both the recruitment and retention of qualified individuals to meet workforce demands are constant problems in the field of ECCE, particularly as they impact the provision of high-quality child care (Totenhagen et al., 2016).”
Low pay but still we stay: Retention in early childhood education and care (2018, background): “Conversely, the extant literature indicates that high levels of job satisfaction and the closely allied notion of organisational commitment predict lower intentions to quit (Seery and Corrigall, 2009; Totenhagen et al., 2016).”
Relating early childhood teachers’ working conditions and well-being to their turnover intentions (2019, background): “teachers care about their experience in the classroom, including how this environment helps or hinders their ability to help students (Totenhagen et al., 2016; Wells, 2015).”