International Perspectives On Early Childhood Education And Development

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International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care

Author : Susanne Garvis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351397915
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care by : Susanne Garvis

Download or read book International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care written by Susanne Garvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in this Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries provides a snapshot of early childhood education and care from 19 different countries around the world. The intention is to provide a description for the policy and provision for young children and their families in each of the unique contemporary contexts. The selection of countries includes every continent in the world to provide variety across cultures, socio-economic status, location, population and other unique factors. Some chapters also share the development and history of early childhood in their country, including economic and political transitions that lead to changes in early childhood provision and policy. The book provides essential takeaways for early childhood educators, researchers, early childhood organisations, policy makers and those interested to know more about early childhood education within an international perspective.

International Perspectives On Early Childhood Education And Care

Author : Georgeson, Jan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335245919
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis International Perspectives On Early Childhood Education And Care by : Georgeson, Jan

Download or read book International Perspectives On Early Childhood Education And Care written by Georgeson, Jan and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interest in understanding how early years care and education is organised and experienced internationally and many early years courses - from foundation degree and beyond - include an 'International Perspectives' module.

Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Author : Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317203615
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education by : Jaipaul L. Roopnarine

Download or read book Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education written by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished experts in early childhood education (ECE), child development, cultural and cross-cultural research in the psychological sciences, etc. The chapters provide current overviews of ECE in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, the US, and Canada, and convey how ECE is multi-sectorial, multi-cultural, and multi-disciplinary, undergirded by such disciplines as neuroscience, psychological anthropology, cross-cultural human development, childhood studies, and political science.

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

Author : Wendy Boyd
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811657394
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis International Perspectives on Early Childhood Teacher Education in the 21st Century by : Wendy Boyd

Download or read book International Perspectives on Early Childhood Teacher Education in the 21st Century written by Wendy Boyd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Play and Learning in Early Childhood Settings

Author : Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402084986
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Play and Learning in Early Childhood Settings by : Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

Download or read book Play and Learning in Early Childhood Settings written by Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the outcome of the joint activities of a group of scholars who were concerned about the lack of international research in play for children from birth to 3 years. The authors are members of the Organisation Mondiale pour ` l’Education Prescholaire ́ (OMEP). For further information, see http://www.om- ong.net/. The idea of carrying out a research project internationally was born at the OMEP’s World Congress in Melbourne, Australia 2004. All member countries were invited and 10 countries decided to participate, of which three have withdrawn d- ing the process. The reason for this might be that in these countries only one person was working with the project, while other seven countries have been working in a team of two or more persons. The countries that have carried out research and contributed to this book with a chapter each are Australia, Chile, China, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and USA (Wisconsin). For more information about the p- ticipating countries and their corresponding addresses, see Appendix I. This book project started in Melbourne with a discussion about what is general in early childhood education globally, and what is culturally speci c. The discussion was inspired by one of the keynote speakers, Nazhat Shameem (2004), judge in the supreme court in Fiji, when she said: “If we all think we are so different and speci c in each culture, the role of human rights has no value anymore.” We formulated three questions:

Critical Issues in Early Childhood Teacher Education

Author : Miranda Lin
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 164113724X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in Early Childhood Teacher Education written by Miranda Lin and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there have been significant changes in education across the globe, largely as a result of changing demographics, technological developments, and increased globalization. Relatedly, the changing needs of societies and families, along with new research findings, provide new directions in early childhood education. Consequently, early childhood teachers today are faced with higher and more complex expectations to help ensure that their students achieve their full potential. Such expectations suggest that early childhood teachers should be professionals who are able to draw on a robust knowledge base in making educational decisions. It follows that teacher education programs should develop and implement innovative programs that can potentially enhance the quality of our future teachers. An awareness of pressing issues in the field of early childhood teacher education led the editors to develop this volume. The chapters in these two volumes bring together scholars from across the US and the globe who are interested in improving the quality of early childhood teacher education. The chapters present their experiences, perspectives, and lessons learned as they addressed some of the challenging issues concerning the education and preparation of future early childhood teachers. The various issues and perspectives from different states in the US or countries across the globe provide insights into current issues and dilemmas facing the field. The contributions of these scholars should inform the discourse on early childhood teacher education and help those who work with preservice teachers improve the quality of their work.

International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood

Author : John Siraj-Blatchford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319422081
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood by : John Siraj-Blatchford

Download or read book International Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood written by John Siraj-Blatchford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the ‘business as usual’ notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools. It presents a vision of sustainable development that has relevance to Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from birth to school; it is relevant as much to homes, family support and health settings as it is to educational settings, and is as much concerned with health and wellbeing as with education. The book provides a perspective that is fundamentally embedded in notions of interdependency. It places an emphasis upon the importance of recognising the interdependency of peoples within and between nation states; the ecological interdependencies of the natural world; of humanity and nature; and most significantly the interdependency of adults and children. These emphases have their origins in the grassroots studies included in the ten chapters representing countries from around the world. The book reflects the idea that only global solutions and initiatives are capable of addressing the global challenges of climate change, environmental pollution, and global threats to ecological systems and biodiversity.

International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education

Author : Cristina A. Huertas-Abril
Publisher : Information Science Reference
ISBN 13 : 9781799825036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education by : Cristina A. Huertas-Abril

Download or read book International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education written by Cristina A. Huertas-Abril and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This book explores ways of intertwining key areas of early childhood education, including international approaches, intercultural education, bilingual education, and the role of play and toys as means for meaningful intercultural and multilingual learning"--Provided by publisher"--

Early Childhood Grows Up

Author : Linda Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789400727182
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Early Childhood Grows Up written by Linda Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands. This book reflects practitioner debates about fundamental questions such as whether or not their field of work is a profession at all. Two key arguments are presented. The first is that early years education has matured to the point that pedagogical and regulatory frameworks have been introduced and linked to a terminology of professionalism. This has opened up a space for early years practitioners – as insiders of this historically undervalued sector – to question the nature of their practice. The questioning leads to the second argument: the need for a new future for early years education marked by a ‘critical ecology’ of the profession. This is a future in which educators maintain an attitude of critical enquiry in all aspects of their role, assessing the genuine needs of the sector, factoring in the different political and cultural milieux that influence it, and acting to transform it. In exploring the issues, this book begins by recording in detail the daily work of early years educators from six countries: Australia, England, Finland, Germany, New Zealand and Sweden. These case studies explore what it means to act professionally in a particular context; perceptions of what being a ‘professional’ in early childhood education means (including practitioners’ self perceptions and external perspectives); and common features of practice in each context. It moves on to analyse the wider socio-political forces that affect this day-to-day practice and recommends that practitioners act as transformative agents informed by the political and social realities of their time.

Comparative Early Childhood Education Services

Author : J. Duncan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137016787
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Early Childhood Education Services written by J. Duncan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education within communities. It presents a shift in the lens of the teachers and management within early childhood services to incorporate new ways of working with, alongside, and in collaboration with family and the wider community.

Centering Whole-Child Development in Global Education Reform

Author : Jaekyung Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100058920X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Centering Whole-Child Development in Global Education Reform by : Jaekyung Lee

Download or read book Centering Whole-Child Development in Global Education Reform written by Jaekyung Lee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers critical analysis of national school reform policies intended to align with global agendas to promote educational quality and equity. By uniquely foregrounding the need for education reform to nurture child well-being alongside traditional measures of academic achievement, the book identifies common challenges across the Global North and South and extends insights provided by international student assessment data. Chapters offer a close analysis of reform practices in countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas to consider cultural, social, political, and functional aspects which drive or inhibit the success of reform initiatives. Providing excellent insights into holistic education for children and youth, this book highlights lessons to support global efforts in providing high-quality, equitable education for the whole child. Developing international knowledge and supplementing international data, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers with an interest in education policy, as well as comparative and international education.

Early Childhood Educational Research

Author : Cathy Nutbrown
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526451786
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Early Childhood Educational Research written by Cathy Nutbrown and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Childhood educational research is a constantly evolving field. This book brings together Cathy Nutbrown’s considerable knowledge and expertise in the field, to deliver a comprehensive and critical overview of national and international research. The strengths of various types of research, and their influence on theory, policy and practice, are identified along with new and emerging research areas, and anticipated future topics and patterns of research. Through an analytical discussion of research topics addressing Children, Adults and Pedagogy, these key areas are highlighted: - Issues in research design - Types of and trends in methodological approaches - The ethics of research With digestible chapter introductions, thinking points and suggestions for research or dissertation topics, readers are also able to locate their own work in an international landscape. This is the perfect ‘go to’ resource for all early childhood education and social science researchers. Cathy Nutbrown will be discussing ideas from Early Childhood Educational Research in Doing Your Early Years Research Project, a SAGE Masterclass for early years students and practitioners in collaboration with Kathy Brodie.

Peer Play and Relationships in Early Childhood

Author : Avis Ridgway
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303042331X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Peer Play and Relationships in Early Childhood written by Avis Ridgway and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play. It presents new understandings of peer play and relationships in chapters drawn from richly varied contexts that involve sibling play, collaborative peer play, and joint play with adults. The book explores social strategies such as cooperation, negotiation, playing with rules, expressing empathy, and sharing imaginary emotional peer play experiences. Its reconceptualization of peer play and relationships promotes new thinking on children's development in contemporary worlds. It shows how new knowledge generated about young children's play with peers illuminates how they learn and develop within and across communities, families, and educational settings in diverse cultural contexts. The book addresses issues that are relevant for parents, early years' professionals and academics, including the role of play in learning at school, the role of adults in self-initiated play, and the long-term impact of early friendships. The book makes clear how recent cultural differences involve digital, engineering and imaginary peer play. The book follows a clear line of argument highlighting the importance of play-based learning and stress the importance of further knowledge of children's interaction in their context. This book aims to highlight the narration of peer play, mostly leaning on a sociocultural theoretical perspective, where many chapters have a cultural-historical theoretical frame and highlight children's social situation of development. Polly Björk-Willén, Linköping University, Sweden

Child Perspectives and Children’s Perspectives in Theory and Practice

Author : Dion Sommer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048133165
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Perspectives and Children’s Perspectives in Theory and Practice by : Dion Sommer

Download or read book Child Perspectives and Children’s Perspectives in Theory and Practice written by Dion Sommer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen a growing emphasis, in a number of professional contexts, on acknowledging and acting on the views of children. This trend was given added weight by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified in 1990. Today, seeking the perspective of the child has become an essential process in all sorts of tasks, from framing new legislation to regulating professions. This book answers the fundamental question of what it is that constitutes a ‘child perspective’, and how this might differ from the perspectives of children themselves. The answers to such questions have important implications for building progressive and developmental adult-child relationships. However, theoretical and empirical treatments of child perspectives and children’s perspectives are very diverse and idiosyncratic, and the standard reference work has yet to be written. Thus, this work is an attempt to fill the gap in the literature by searching for and defining key formulations of potential child perspectives within parts of the so-called ‘new child paradigm’. This has been derived from childhood sociology, contextual-relational developmental psychology, interpretative humanistic psychology and developmental pedagogy. The highly experienced authors develop a comprehensive professional child perspective paradigm that integrates recent theory and empirical child research. With its clear presentation of underlying theories and suggested applications, this book illustrates a child-oriented understanding of specific relevance to both child-care and preschool educational practice.

International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education

Author : Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799825051
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education by : Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.

Download or read book International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education written by Huertas-Abril, Cristina A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through different approaches like toys and play, children explore and know the rules and symbols of their communities and recreate roles and situations that reflect their sociocultural and 21st century plurilingual world. As a result, they learn how to subordinate desires to social rules, cooperate with others willingly, and engage in socially appropriate behavior. When they are evaluated together psychologically, there is a current need for action to increase the amount and quality of play provided to children. Since discrepancies are observed between urban and rural areas, as well as among different cultures, there is also a need for a research initiative where cultures can learn and take advantage of the experiences of each other. International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education is an essential scholarly publication that identifies ways of intertwining key areas of early childhood education, including international approaches, intercultural education, bilingual/plurilingual education, and the role of play and toys as means for meaningful intercultural and multilingual learning. By incorporating a view of different cultures, societies, languages, and educational experiences in early childhood education, this volume provides data for international and intercultural exchange for the benefit of children. Highlighting a range of topics such as educational systems, play therapy, and games, this book is ideal for early childhood teachers, educators, academicians, researchers, professionals, psychologists, sociologists, and students.

Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation

Author : Mariane Hedegaard
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303036271X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation written by Mariane Hedegaard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.

Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education

Author : Susanne Garvis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030731820
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education written by Susanne Garvis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores international perspectives on quality improvement within the field of early childhood education and care. Many countries and governments are focusing on preschool quality as a way to improve entrenched inequalities and reduce social disadvantage and segregation: this book draws together various global case studies to showcase how different countries tackle aspects of quality improvement. The concept of quality is understood in different ways both culturally and contextually, and the implementation of measures to improve quality will differ from country to country. The book draws together case studies from numerous contexts to showcase various ways of working with aspects of quality improvement. Sharing important insights into policy and practice, this book guides a shared understanding of the complex nature of quality improvement within early childhood education and care.