ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the reader with the voices of teacher educators, policy makers, and school administrators from diverse groups concerned with early education. These voices illustrate some of the concerns, questions, and challenges that lie at the heart of the current debates surrounding early childhood teacher education in Asia and as experienced by the participants. Technology was definitely an issue in early childhood education as well as teacher education. As current educators and policy makers approach the defining and restructuring of early childhood teacher education programs in Asia, it might be pertinent to remember that a variety of teacher training programs are required to meet a range of needs, including short-term in-service programs, longer academically rigorous preservice programs, as well as programs to produce teacher educators who are themselves in short supply. More importantly, policy makers are advised to be mindful of two critical concerns: the issue of cultural incursions and the issue of growing neoliberal incursions in education.
