Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138642508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str.

Elizabeth Coates; Dorothy Faulkner

Opis

The Millennium Development Goals aim to create a safer, more prosperous, and more equitable world. If these goals were to be achieved, children’s lives would be transformed. This book highlights the priorities and agendas of governments around the world, and focuses on the trends and issues which reveal the social and educational inequalities that persist across countries. This volume demonstrates that those who work in early years provision continue to experience a deep concern for the well-being of young children, transcending cultures, frontiers, and political and sectarian divides. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Early Years Education.

Spis treści

Introduction: International Perspectives on Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care, 1993 to 2013  1. A participatory process of developing a recommendation for the government about the education of children from birth to three years: the case of Portugal  2. A review and analysis of the current policy on early childhood education in mainland China  3. Early childhood development in South Africa – progress since the end of apartheid  4. Trends and tensions: Australian and international research about starting school  5. Educational innovation between freedom and fixation: the cultural-political construction of innovations in early childhood education in the Netherlands  6. Promoting critical awareness in the initial training of preschool teachers in Greece: resistance and perspectives  7. Preschool a source for young children’s learning and well-being  8. Mothers’ experiences with a mother-child education programme in five countries  9. Early childhood policy and practice in England: twenty years of change