Author : Peter Moss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 041568773X
What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? While it's widely assumed that the former should prepare children for the latter, there are alternatives. This book contests the 'readying for school' relationship as neither self-evident nor unproblematic, and explores some alternative relationships.
Author : Linda A. White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1487514468
In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In the first part of the book, the author investigates the sources of policy ideas that triggered ECEC changes in various national contexts. This is followed by a close analysis of cross-national variation in the implementation of ECEC policy in Canada and the USA. White argues that the primary mechanisms for policy change are grounded in policy investment logics as well as cultural logics: that is, shifts in public sentiments and government beliefs about the value of ECEC policies and programs are rooted in both evidence-based arguments and in principled beliefs about the policy. A rich, nuanced examination of the reasons motivating ECEC policy expansion and adoption in different countries, Constructing Policy Change is a corrective to the comparative welfare state literature that focuses on political interest alone.
Author : Richard M. Clifford
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
The United States is at a pivotal crossroads in determining the educational experiences of children ages 3 through 8. Helping educators set goals and design effective policies, this title provides a history of early education and care in the United States and invites readers to consider early schooling in a global perspective.
Author : Harry Willekens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137441984
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 : John Taylor Gatto
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1550923013
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
Author : John Holt
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 1995-09-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0201484048
Explores the natural learning processes of children at the pre-school and primary grade level and describes the ways in which formal education damages and impedes the child's independent ability to learn
Author : Claire Cameron
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787357163
Early childhood education and care has been a political priority in England since 1997, when government finally turned its attention to this long-neglected area. Public funding has increased, policy initiatives have proliferated and at each general election political parties aim to outbid each other in their offer to families. Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a Democratic Education argues that, despite this attention, the system of early childhood services remains flawed and dysfunctional. National discourse is dominated by the cost and availability of childcare at the expense of holistic education, while a hotchpotch of fragmented provision staffed by a devalued workforce struggles with a culture of targets and measurement. With such deep-rooted problems, early childhood education and care in England is beyond minor improvements. In the context of austerity measures affecting many young families, transformative change is urgent.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert R. Austin
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1483216276
Early Childhood Education: An International Perspective presents the summarized outcomes of a five-year cross-cultural survey of early childhood education in the Western world. It provides understanding of some of the topics of debate surrounding preschool education. The text approaches the argument by centering on the history of philosophical thought in early childhood education and offers information on the political and social-cultural changes that have inspired interest in facilitating children’s early learning experience. The book discusses the historical background of early childhood education in the United States. It focuses on the ideas and evidence showing the significance of cooperation in international research. Another topic of interest is the early childhood education in England, Wales, Canada, and Sweden. The section that follows is a review of the aims and objectives of early childhood education. The text will provide valuable insights for teachers, educators, students, and researchers in the field of social sciences.
Author : Kaga, Yoshie
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Education, Preschool
ISBN : 9231041630
