ABSTRACT

The third volume in the Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries focuses on research highlights and policy aspects of early childhood education and care from 22 different countries around the world.

This volume provides a platform for authors to discuss and debate the implications of research findings on current practices that reflect policies of each country. The research presented spans from challenges in teacher training to case studies of family practices around early child development to problematise the key components of teacher education and family practices that impact young children’s education and care. By problematising the key issues, chapter authors discuss the shifting paradigm of early childhood education and the importance of future research in informing these changes.

Offering key policy and practice insights across 19 different countries, this book is a must-read for early childhood educators, researchers, early childhood organisations, policy makers and those interested to know more about early childhood within an international perspective.

chapter 2|17 pages

Facebook mentoring of beginning teachers

Implications for ECEC teacher training in Australia

chapter 3|14 pages

Citizen engagement in child care policy

Examining child care policy problematisations in Canadian newspaper articles from 2008 to 2015

chapter 4|11 pages

Current research on early childhood education in Chile

The quality of the services and early literacy

chapter 5|12 pages

From caring to learning

The transformation of Danish day care institutions in the 21st century

chapter 7|15 pages

Playing to learn in Finland

Early childhood curricular and operational contexts

chapter 8|15 pages

Beyond transformations and transnational reform movements in educational policy and practice

‘Culture’ as a framework for critical reflections

chapter 9|16 pages

Early childhood teacher education in Greece

Challenges and opportunities in a centralised education system

chapter 11|13 pages

Unlocking Pandora’s Box

Rethinking the cost, quality and outcomes of early childhood education and care services in Korea

chapter 13|21 pages

Contested quality

The struggle over quality, play and preschooling in Norwegian early childhood education and care

chapter 14|17 pages

Preschool quality research in Russia

Assessment for improving the quality

chapter 18|12 pages

Turning the tide

Publicisation of early childhood education and care in Taiwan

chapter 19|15 pages

Early childhood education in the Netherlands

Parental engagement as a policy view

chapter 21|12 pages

Policy and childhood

Making sense of systems