International Perspectives on Early Childhood Teacher Education in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9789811657412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 267 str.

Wendy Boyd; Susanne Garvis

Opis

This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in educators to provide good quality ECEC. Yet, there is an inconsistent approach to early childhood teacher preparation and the quality of existing programs is not known.Each country’s contributing author/s is/are well known in their field for their in-depth knowledge of early childhood teacher education programs including content, structure, and professional experience that works within the scope of policy and registration agencies. The chapters address the current situation of staffing—shortage or oversupply—of early childhood teachers in their country. The book informs policy regarding content of early childhood teacher preparation programs and provides evidence of current courses across many under-represented countries throughout the world. It makes a significant contribution to understanding the environment for early childhood teacher programs.

Spis treści

Introduction

Wendy Boyd & Susanne Garvis

Chapter 1. Getting it right for early childhood teacher programs in Australia

Wendy Boyd & Alicia Phillips

Chapter 2. Early Childhood Teacher Education in Canada:  Challenges and Opportunities

Laura K. Doan

Chapter 3. Contemporary early childhood education and care teaching training in China

Ying Liu & Wendy Boyd

Chapter 4. Early Childhood Teacher Education in Contemporary Times

Lavinia Tiko

Chapter 5. The Role of Early Childhood Teachers in Finnish Policy Documents - Training Teachers for the Future

Heidi Harju-Luukkainen & Jonna Kangas

Chapter 6. Early Childhood Teacher Education in Germany –Insights into Traditions, Reforms and Current Challenges

Martina Müller & Stefan Faas

Chapter 7. Ireland’s Reform Agenda: Transforming the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector into One of the Best in the World

Mary Moloney 

Chapter 8.  Current Trends and challenges for Early Childhood Teacher Education in Japan

Chiharu Uchida

Chapter 9. Early childhood teacher education in New Zealand: Facts, values, and uncertainties

Qilong Zhang

Chapter 10. Early childhood teacher programs in the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Kelesi Whippy

Chapter 11. Development of preschool teacher’s competences as a way to increase the ECE quality

Igor Shiyan, Anna Iakshina, Tatiana Le-van & Olga Shiyan

Chapter 12. Developing teacher competence in Swedish early childhood teachers

Maelis Karlsson Lohmander & Susanne Garvis

Chapter 13. Early childhood teacher education in Turkey: Description, Research and Problems

Şenil, Ünlü-Çetin

Chapter 14. Teachers and Teaching in the UK

Catherine Carroll-Meehan

Chapter 15. Early Childhood Education and Care in Vietnam: from Confucianism to 21st Century reforms in Curriculum and Training

Geraldine Neylon & Le Thi Ha Xuyen

Chapter 16.  Chapter 16. Early Childhood Education and Care in in Zambia: ECE provision and teacher education 

Ronald L. Kaunda & Joanne Ailwood

Chapter 17. Conclusions: Early childhood teaching programs across 16 countries 

Susanne Garvis & Wendy Boyd

O autorze

Dr Wendy Boyd is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at Southern Cross University. Her research focuses on provision of quality early childhood programs to support the optimal development of all children. This includes parents’ perspectives on early childhood programs; the effectiveness and development of the early childhood workforce; and the provision of sustainable practices in early childhood education. 

Professor Susanne Garvis works in early childhood education and is the Chair of the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She has worked in Australia, Sweden, Finland and Norway as an academic. Her research interests are based within policy, quality and learning within early childhood education and care.