ABSTRACT
The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished experts in early childhood education (ECE), child development, cultural and cross-cultural research in the psychological sciences, etc. The chapters provide current overviews of ECE in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, the US, and Canada, and convey how ECE is multi-sectorial, multi-cultural, and multi-disciplinary, undergirded by such disciplines as neuroscience, psychological anthropology, cross-cultural human development, childhood studies, and political science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Latin America and the Caribbean
chapter 3|10 pages
Early Childhood Education in Brazil
part II|58 pages
Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East
chapter 7|16 pages
Moving Forward
part III|98 pages
Asia
part IV|48 pages
Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea
chapter 17|18 pages
Becoming Critically Reflective about Early Childhood Education
part V|50 pages
Africa
chapter 21|15 pages
Early Childhood Education and Social Transformation in South Africa
part VI|97 pages
Europe, the United States, and Canada
chapter 24|9 pages
Early Childhood Education in Sweden
part VII|21 pages
Policy Issues