Comparative Perspectives On Early Childhood Education Reforms In Australia And China

Author : Josephine Ng,Berenice Nyland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030534752

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Comparative Perspectives on Early Childhood Education Reforms in Australia and China by Josephine Ng,Berenice Nyland Pdf

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context. The focus is Australia and China with three research projects explored to provide insights into the history and development of early childhood education in each country. The work offers a consideration of the complexity of early childhood education in local and global contexts, at a time when global relationships can benefit from moving beyond better cultural understandings to greater connections and reciprocity. Each study has accompanying empirical data to support the interpretations offered. The first part of the book presents historical context and examines policy issues, the growth of the early childhood education workforce and the development of curriculum approaches in each country. The two projects that follow describe teachers’ perspectives of children’s learning and an in-depth study of a collaborative higher education program that details stakeholder experiences. By studying participant attitudes and ideas in each country we have been able to share early childhood knowledge and discuss perspectives through early childhood languages, like perspectives on the role, importance and nature of play and learning.

Author : Jeffrey S. Brooks,Anthony H. Normore,Melanie C. Brooks,Nicola Sum
Publisher : IAP
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648027147

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Globalization and Education by Jeffrey S. Brooks,Anthony H. Normore,Melanie C. Brooks,Nicola Sum Pdf

Globalization and Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse explores the various ways educators’ work is influenced by globalization. This book presents topics and contexts traditionally marginalized in mainstream education research discourses and shows how local and global education issues are intersecting and shaping the ways in which ideas and practices are shared around the world. Each chapter presents an educational issue in an understudied international context, such as Saudi Arabia, Guyana, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Nepal. Topics range from how the knowledge industry shapes education in schools to the impact of globalization on school leadership, teaching, and learning. We invite scholars and practitioners to join us in the world schoolhouse, a place where discussion about educational understanding and improvement is not bounded by national borders, school systems or language. This book will both challenge and expand thinking about the complexities of education during a time of globalization and change.

Author : Guangyu Tan,Amita Gupta,Gay Wilgus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137600417

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Investment in Early Childhood Education in a Globalized World by Guangyu Tan,Amita Gupta,Gay Wilgus Pdf

This book is a comparative study of how early childhood educational policies and initiatives in three countries—China, India, and the United States—have been utilized as both direct and indirect strategies for responding to fierce global economic competition. Human capital theory and cultural ecology theory serve as the conceptual framework for discussing how this has played out in each of the three countries. In addition, this book presents a discussion and analysis of how the beliefs, parents’ perspectives, and practices with regard to child-rearing and the education of young children have both changed and remained the same in response to forces of globalization.

Author : Minyi Li,Jillian Fox,Susan Grieshaber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811022074

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Contemporary Issues and Challenge in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region by Minyi Li,Jillian Fox,Susan Grieshaber Pdf

This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific. Key concepts considered are re-conceptualizing early childhood education and care, re-eaxming early learning standards and redefining professionalism. The Asia Pacific region includes countries belonging to both the Majority and Minority worlds and which vary widely in terms of their cultural geography, social-cultural beliefs, and levels of development, demographic profiles, political systems and government commitments to early childhood services. An international team of experienced researchers from different countries guarantees diverse perspectives. By examining different countries’ policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young children based on their countries’ strategies.

Author : Nirmala Rao,Jing Zhou,Jin Sun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789402410044

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Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies by Nirmala Rao,Jing Zhou,Jin Sun Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People’s Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values, Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political, economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality, and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood education. divThis book is the first English-language research-based review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the increased recognition of the importance of early childhood education for human capital development globally, and the international interest in understanding early education in Chinese societies.iv>

Author : Qiuping Cao
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Graduate School of Education, Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : UGA:32108022242153

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Early Childhood Education in Comparative Perspective by Qiuping Cao Pdf

Author : Harry Willekens,Kirsten Scheiwe,Kristen Nawrotzki
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137441976

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The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America by Harry Willekens,Kirsten Scheiwe,Kristen Nawrotzki Pdf

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.

Author : Hui Li,Eunhye Park,Jennifer J. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811015281

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Early Childhood Education Policies in Asia Pacific by Hui Li,Eunhye Park,Jennifer J. Chen Pdf

This book evaluates recent early childhood education policies on the basis of a ‘3A2S’ framework, which refers to accessibility, affordability, accountability, sustainability, and social justice. It systematically and empirically reviews early childhood education policies in specific countries and areas in the Asia-Pacific Region, such as Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and so on. As the first English-language collection of large-scale reviews of early childhood education policies in Asia Pacific, this book will be of great value to early childhood educators, policymakers, researchers, and postgraduate students in the Region and beyond.

Author : J. Duncan,S. One
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137016782

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Comparative Early Childhood Education Services by J. Duncan,S. One Pdf

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.

Author : Liyan HUO,Susan B. NEUMAN,Atsushi NANAKIDA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783662449868

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Early Childhood Education in Three Cultures by Liyan HUO,Susan B. NEUMAN,Atsushi NANAKIDA Pdf

This book, written by an international team of experienced researchers, investigates unique and dynamic approaches to key issues in policy transformation, curriculum reforms and teacher training in three cultures – China, Japan and the United States – in a globalized world. By examining their respective policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young children based on their needs and interests, and the three countries’ strategies for doing so. This book provides the latest information on the rapid developments already underway and further changes to be expected in these diverse cultures.

Author : Harry Willekens,Kirsten Scheiwe,Kristen Nawrotzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137441980

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The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America by Harry Willekens,Kirsten Scheiwe,Kristen Nawrotzki Pdf

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.

Author : Ronnel B. King,Allan B. I. Bernardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812875761

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The Psychology of Asian Learners by Ronnel B. King,Allan B. I. Bernardo Pdf

This book celebrates the scholarly achievements of Prof. David A. Watkins, who has pioneered research on the psychology of Asian learners, and helps readers grasp the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian learners learning experiences. A wide range of empirical and review papers, which examine the characteristics of these experiences as they are shaped by both the particularities of diverse educational systems/cultural milieus and universal principles of human learning and development, are showcased. The individual chapters, which explore learners from fourteen Asian countries, autonomous regions, and/or economies, build on research themes and approaches from Prof. Watkins’ research work, and are proof of the broad importance and enduring relevance of his seminal psychological research on learners and the learning process.

Author : Wendy Boyd,Susanne Garvis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811657399

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International Perspectives on Early Childhood Teacher Education in the 21st Century by Wendy Boyd,Susanne Garvis Pdf

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.

Author : Wen-Chuan Lin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788925167

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Learning English and Chinese as Foreign Languages by Wen-Chuan Lin Pdf

Learning English and Chinese is becoming increasingly important to the prospects of young people. This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England in order to highlight how classroom activities are embedded within multiple settings, including ethnic or other social group cultures, family and community resources and school visions or goals. The book illustrates how in Taiwan different ethnic groups recognise, access and value English language learning to varying extents. Its findings illuminate why some ethnic groups are highly motivated to learn English and are able to gain privileged economic positions in the job market. In England, access to Chinese is marked by social class, and the book argues that this could augment an ‘educational apartheid’ that already exists in language teaching in secondary schools, thereby exacerbating existing inequality.

Author : Amita Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135123017

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Diverse Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices by Amita Gupta Pdf

Diverse Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices explores issues in early childhood education and teacher preparation in five Asian countries: India, Singapore, China, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Some observed classrooms in these countries reflect influences that are simultaneously indigenous and colonial, local and global. By highlighting the diverse and often hybrid classroom pedagogies at work in these 21st century Asian classrooms, the discussions in this book take into consideration the influence of globalization on local policies and practices, and the challenge educators face when they are expected to reconcile different and sometimes conflicting cultural and pedagogical world views. Through a research-driven analysis of key issues such as recent revisions to national early childhood education policies, perceptions on "play-based and child-centered" pedagogy, curriculum and learning materials, and an emphasis on the teaching of values, this book illuminates the diversity of the observed classrooms as well as current trends in early childhood education in parts of Asia. The cross-national perspective serves to expand and diversify the global discourse of early childhood education and teacher education.