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This chapter provides detailed descriptions of the basic purpose, the goals, the methodology, the participants, and the philosophy of the Early Change project. It presents information about the project’s structure, consortium, and basic aims and discusses the methodology, the instruments, and the training procedures that were implemented during the course of the project. It ends with a description of the project’s results, the deliverables, and the outputs as well as its potential for innovation and the conclusions drawn from the overall experience.
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Zachopoulou, E., Grammatikopoulos, V., Gregoriadis, A. (2018). Early Change: Description of a Project for Continuing Professional Development. In: Gregoriadis, A., Grammatikopoulos, V., Zachopoulou, E. (eds) Professional Development and Quality in Early Childhood Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64212-3_4
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