Ready for ethical and critically reflective practice in supercomplex times? Discourses, knowledge and values in the postmodern society of Hong Kong / Gail Yuen. Part III. Redefining professionalism. Marketization and corporation of early childhood care and education in Singapore / Sirene Lim -- Reconceptualist work in a colonising context: challenges for Australian early childhood education / Melinda G. Miller -- Has the Universal Free Childcare Policy been successful? Issues and challenges for early childhood education and care in Korea / Eunhy Park and Hong-Ju Jun -- Prophesying early childhood educational care in India: my insider/outsider postcolonial vision / Parasanna Srinivasan -- A Hong Kong version of early Chinese literacy education: a Sinophone perspective / Po Chi Tam -- What does the gap between advocated theories and realistic practice mean: a re-coneptualization of the early childhood curriculum reform in China / Jie Zhang and Jiaxiong Zhu -- Part II. Re-examining standards. In human-capital we trust, on developmentalism we act: the case of Indonesian early childhood education policy / Ali Formen -- The Australian early years learning framework and ICT: a part of life or apart from life? / Jillian L. Fox and Carmel M. Diezmann -- The spectre of standards in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education and care / Alexandra C. Gunn and N. Ruth Gasson -- The early learning and development guidelines in China: retrospective and prospective views / Hongyu Gao and Liyan Huo -- Part III. Redefining professionalism. Re-thinking discourse of teacher professionalism in early childhood education: an Australian perspective / Megan Gibson, Tamara Cumming and Lyn Zollo -- Policy trends in teacher professionalization and professionalism in India / Amita Gupta -- Re-conceptualising quality early childhood education: what does Soka education have to offer? / Kiiko Ikegami and Susan Grieshaber -- Is China pre-primary teacher workforce ready for a big jump in enrolment? / Minyi Li, Liwei Liu and Xin Fan -- Building quality early childhood education from the ground up: teacher preparation in Vanuatu / Emma Pearson and Jenny James -- Ready for ethical and critically reflective practice in supercomplex times? Discourses, knowledge and values in the postmodern society of Hong Kong / Gail Yuen.
Summary:
"This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific. Key concepts considered are re-conceptualizing early childhood education and care, re-eaxming early learning standards and redefining professionalism. The Asia Pacific region includes countries belonging to both the Majority and Minority worlds and which vary widely in terms of their cultural geography, social-cultural beliefs, and levels of development, demographic profiles, political systems and government commitments to early childhood services. An international team of experienced researchers from different countries guarantees diverse perspectives. By examining different countries' policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young children based on their countries' strategies"--Page 4 of cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.