International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care 1st Edition by Jan Georgeson ISBN 978-0335245918 0335245919

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ISBN 10: 0335245919

ISBN 13: 978-0335245918

Author: Jan Georgeson

This book is a clear, concise and straightforward guide to the action learning approach to problem-solving and learning in groups.

Table of contents: 

PART 1

Setting the scene

1 The importance of international perspectives

JAN GEORGESON, JANE PAYLER AND VERITY CAMPBELL-BARR

2 Widening awareness of international approaches: an imperative for twenty-first-century early years practitioners?

VALERIE HUGGINS

3 International recognition of children’s rights and its influence on early

childhood education and care: the case of Zambia

JULIA MORGAN

PART 2

How approaches have developed

4 Embedding early childhood education and care in the socio-cultural context: the case of Italy

FEDERICA CARUSO

5 The new face of early childhood in the United States

NANCY MCDERMOTT

6 A critique of euro-centric perspectives on early childhood education and care in the Gambia

REBECCA CARTER DILLON

7 Estonia: socio-historic and political influences on the early childhood education and care system

KERSTIN KÖÖP

8 Early childhood education in Norway and Sweden today: education for

democracy

ELIN ODEGAARD

PART 3

Workforce issues

9 South Africa: who are the early years practitioners and where do they work?

hasina banu ebrahim

10 The quest for quality early childhood education and care: leadership in a changing political context in England and Hong Kong

VERITY CAMPBELL-BARR, CAROLINE LEESON AND DORA HO

11 India: early childhood educators in changing patterns of early childhood

education and care

CHANDRIKA DEVARAKONDA

12 Early childhood education and care in the Czech Republic: recent developments within a changing society

PHILIP SELBIE AND ALENA DRŽALOVA

PART 4

Putting it into practice: curriculum and pedagogy

13 Day to day in Italian preschools: environments for learning and development

PAOLO SORZIO

14 A day in the life of a New Zealand kindergarten teacher:

a curriculum of open possibilities

CARMEN DALLI

15 HighScope today: pedagogy for learning and development

BETH MARSHALL

16 China: pedagogy today and the move towards creativity

KEANG-IENG (PEGGY) VONG

17 Canada: developing an ethical pedagogy and curriculum

ANNE HUNT

18 Diverse theories for diverse learners? The Australian early years learning framework

JOCE NUTTALL AND SUSAN EDWARDS

19 Using Leuven observation and assessment tools to investigate outdoor provision

ANNIE DAVY

20 Hungary: kindergarten as a public education institution

MRS. ÉVA KOVÁCSNÉ BAKOSI (TRANSLATED BY ZSUZSA MEGYESINÉ VARGA)

21 The Japanese view of nature and its implications for the teaching of science in the early childhood years

MANABU SUMIDA

22 Early childhood education and care in the UK: piecemeal development through philanthropy, propagation, pluralism, and pragmatism

JANE PAYLER, JAN GEORGESON AND KARENWICKETT

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