Quality Education In The Early Years

Author : Abbott, Lesley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335192304

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Quality Education In The Early Years by Abbott, Lesley Pdf

This volume identifies and explores high quality work (and what shapes it) in early years education. It shows us children and adults variously working and playing, talking and communicating, learning and laughing, caring and sharing in a rich tapestry of case studies which highlight quality experiences and interactions. Every chapter is based around a particular case study, each one tackling a different issue: the curriculum, play, assessment, roles and relationships, special needs, partnerships with parents and equal opportunities. All the writers work together in early years education on a day-to-day basis enabling them to pool their different expertise to create a balanced but challenging approach. They give inspiring examples of, and outline underlying principles for, quality work and ask important questions of all those involved in the education and care of young children.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264085145

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Starting Strong Engaging Young Children Lessons from Research about Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by OECD Pdf

The first years of life lay the foundations for a child’s future development and learning. Reflecting on the important role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in providing all children with the skills they need to be successful in school, many countries have increased their ...

Author : Helen Penn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335240241

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EBOOK: Quality in Early Childhood Services - An International Perspective by Helen Penn Pdf

This book examines how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. Drawing on her experience of research and policy making in a wide variety of countries, the author considers the variety of rationales that inform services for early childhood education and care. Services are organized, financed and delivered in many different ways across the world. The policies that have been adopted by governments, and the resources which are made available for implementing them, have shaped practice. On the one hand there are complex ideas about what children should be learning and how they should be learning. These ideas about curriculum and the training of teachers and carers may differ radically between countries. On the other hand policies have been prompted by the need to reconcile family and work obligations and to provide childcare to support working mothers, irrespective of educational concerns. The notions of economic competition and parental choice have led to the growth of private for-profit childcare services which promote a particular view of quality and achievement. Above all, growing inequality within countries, and between rich and poor countries, have undermined attempts to provide good quality services. In an unfair world, the impact of any services is likely to be distorted. The book charts the many different approaches to understanding and measuring quality and gives an exceptionally well-informed overview.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264442566

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TALIS Building a High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Further Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018 by OECD Pdf

The work of early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals is the major driver of the quality of an ECEC system. As evidence accumulates on the strong benefits of investing in early education, countries need effective policies to attract, maintain and retain a highly skilled workforce in the sector.

Author : Elise Hunkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030316273

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The Quality Agenda in Early Childhood Education by Elise Hunkin Pdf

This book investigates notions of ‘quality’ in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally. After experiencing quality reform as an educator, the author turned to research as a means by which to better understand early childhood quality reform and agenda over time. This book questions how early childhood reform policy and agenda have constructed quality - what it is presumed to be and do - over time and the implications of these 'truths'. Taking a Foucauldian governmentality view of the history of Australian early childhood services, the impetus for the quality reform era, the quality reform policy assemblages and the contemporary post-reform era, this book rigorously examines prevailing policy assumptions, ambitions and deployments of quality, and warns of an emerging ambition for ‘only quality’ settings in early childhood. This book will appeal to early childhood students and educators, education policy sociologists and all who are interested in reclaiming early childhood education and care.

Author : Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan Pence,Dr Alan Pence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134113514

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Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care by Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan Pence,Dr Alan Pence Pdf

This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.

Author : Louise Derman-Sparks,Julie Olsen Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1938113578

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Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks,Julie Olsen Edwards Pdf

Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.

Author : Marilou Hyson,Heather Biggar Tomlinson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807755587

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The Early Years Matter by Marilou Hyson,Heather Biggar Tomlinson Pdf

This accessible and enaging work introduces current and future teachers, child care providers, and others interested in early childhood education to the importance for the early years in children's well-being and success. It summarizes their research on the value of high-quality services for young children, families, and society, showing why early education matters both today and into the future. Emphasizing the need to understand and respect young children's strengths and unique characteristics, the authors offer inspiration for working in the field, as well as addressing the realistic challenges of implementing developmentally appropriate care and education.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broadening the Foundation for Success
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309324885

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Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broadening the Foundation for Success Pdf

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Author : Zoyah Kinkead-Clark,Kerry-Ann Escayg
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030690156

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Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development by Zoyah Kinkead-Clark,Kerry-Ann Escayg Pdf

Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children’s development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice. Each author offers a unique perspective on issues germane to the field of early childhood education: perceptions of children, curriculum, teacher education, and play-based learning. An innovative, timely, and much-needed contribution, this book represents an inclusive collection of theoretical and cultural knowledge, as well as research. Such a diverse multicentric lens opens new intellectual pathways for authentic, reciprocal knowledge exchange, while ensuring that a reimagining of early childhood education remains at the core of our teaching practice, scholarship, and activism. This book invites everyone to imagine, to dare to believe, to hope, and to act—in the interests of children, in the interests of communities and families, and in the moral precepts of equity, inclusion and justice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Child development
ISBN : OCLC:1259692549

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British Columbia Early Learning Framework by Anonim Pdf

Author : Verity Campbell-Barr,Caroline Leeson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473953109

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Quality and Leadership in the Early Years by Verity Campbell-Barr,Caroline Leeson Pdf

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? Quality is a term frequently used to describe early years provision without any further explanation of exactly what this ′quality provision′ looks like or how it can be achieved. This book not only unpicks what is meant by the term ′quality′ in England, across the UK, and beyond, but it does so in the context of how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality. In exploring quality and leadership and the ways in which both terms have been conceptualised from a range of different perspectives you will be able to find a meaning that is right for you and your practice. With chapters covering: · The global interest in quality · The broad nature of early childhood leadership · Reflective evaluation and practice This book will be of interest to setting and room leaders across the early years as well as students studying early childhood or in early years teacher training.

Author : Michael Reed,Natalie Canning
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446291948

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Implementing Quality Improvement & Change in the Early Years by Michael Reed,Natalie Canning Pdf

For all those working in Early Years, improving quality experiences for all young children is a priority. By examining issues surrounding quality improvement, the importance of reflective practice and the attributes required in the workplace to effect change and leadership, this book provides a contemporary view of practice. Chapters focus on how settings can improve quality experiences for young children and how to implement strategies that lead to quality improvement. Issues covered include: - multi-disciplinary working - evaluating impact through reflective practice - creativity, digital technologies and play - safeguarding young children - leading practice and leading change - working with parents - improving the quality of student experience This text allows students and practitioners to examine and reflect on practises that lead to creative Quality Improvement Strategies (QIS) in Early Years settings. Michael Reed is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, Institute of Education: Centre for Early Childhood Natalie Canning is a Lecturer in Early Years at The Open University.

Author : Emma Slaughter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335262236

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Quality in the Early Years by Emma Slaughter Pdf

The term ‘quality’ is frequently used in early years practice - both in professional discussions and in key policy and literature - but often without question or an agreed understanding of what quality is and as though it is an entirely unproblematic concept. Through a series of inspiring and thought-provoking chapters this book supports you in considering and developing your own notion of ‘quality early years practice’ across a broad range of key strands of early years provision – from the environment to policies, from work with vulnerable children and babies to curriculum and research. This book helps you to construct your own idea of quality and challenges you to develop your own understanding through stimulating discussion and reflection points. A key argument is that whilst there are several ‘indicators’ and ‘measures’ of quality there is no one universally agreed definition of ‘quality’ in early years provision and hence developing your own notion of quality and working towards that with others is paramount. Key features include: •Consideration of what ‘quality’ looks like within a contemporary early years landscape•How you might deliver quality practice when other influences might appear to hinder or contradict this•Reflection points to help you embed and link your learning to practice•A graduated approach for a greater depth of engagement with the topic and relevant literature. With each chapter written by an early years expert Quality in the Early Years is a vital companion for those studying towards any early years qualification, as well as established practitioners and leaders within the field.

Author : Naeyc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1938113950

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Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8, Fourth Edition (Fully Revised and Updated) by Naeyc Pdf

The long-awaited new edition of NAEYC's book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs is here, fully revised and updated! Since the first edition in 1987, it has been an essential resource for the early childhood education field. Early childhood educators have a professional responsibility to plan and implement intentional, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that promote the social and emotional development, physical development and health, cognitive development, and general learning competencies of each child served. But what is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)? DAP is a framework designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development through a strengths-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. As educators make decisions to support each child's learning and development, they consider what they know about (1) commonality in children's development and learning, (2) each child as an individual (within the context of their family and community), and (3) everything discernible about the social and cultural contexts for each child, each educator, and the program as a whole. This latest edition of the book is fully revised to underscore the critical role social and cultural contexts play in child development and learning, including new research about implicit bias and teachers' own context and consideration of advances in neuroscience. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the many assets all young children bring to the early learning program as individuals and as members of families and communities. They also develop an awareness of their own context. Building on each child's strengths, educators design and implement learning settings to help each child achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas.