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Jessie Ming Sin Wong; Simon Man Fai Wong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
In the face of the rising tension between Hong Kong and mainland China, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam blamed the city's education system for its inability to develop a sense of 'I am Chinese' national identity and vowed to step up 'national education' from preschool. This article explores how 188 young preschool teachers perceived their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preschools, Preschool Education
Lukšík, Ivan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Some children, especially those living in poverty and from ethnic minority backgrounds, have difficulty accessing preschool education. This is despite the fact that preschooling is considered to provide the foundations to a successful education and social inclusion. In Slovakia this issue primarily affects Roma children (Roma are also referred to…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups
Paananen, Maiju – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This ethnographic study, carried out in public kindergartens in Finland, traces the enactments of the societal roles of early childhood education. It highlights how the intertwining of governing tools and discourses related to early childhood education's societal role participates in the formation of daily life in kindergarten. The concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Role of Education, Social Justice
Gil Prieto, Anna – Deafness & Education International, 2022
In 2002, the Brazilian deaf communities' struggles against academic failure and deaf student dropout won a linguistic policy: the LIBRAS Federal Law. This official law, regulated by Decree N.5626 in 2005, recognises LIBRAS as a national language and requires inclusive educational practices in a bilingual model in order to promote meaningful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Preschool Children
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; Kummen, Kathleen; Hodgins, B. Denise – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Despite the burgeoning literature that describes the most effective ways of engaging early childhood educators in professional learning, very little empirical work in North America has examined the processes, dialogs, and engagements in which educators participate to address quality as a social construct. This article (1) describes a model of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Educational Quality
Houston, David M.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Next, 2023
These are the results of the 16th annual "Education Next" survey, conducted in May 2022 with a nationally representative sample of 1,784 American adults. While last year's survey revealed sharp changes in support for a variety of education reforms (EJ1348128), public opinion on most issues has since rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Educational Quality, National Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
Buono, Alexia; Davis, Crystal U. – Journal of Dance Education, 2022
In this article we analyze the landscape of dance teacher certification programs in the United States for the potential of anti-racist transformation in the field of dance education. We look at higher educational programming as a main place for revolutionary change in the future of dance education because the socio-political culture within…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teacher Certification, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Connors-Tadros, Lori; Weisenfeld, G. G. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2020
In order to expand high quality public preschool, a 3-step approach to ensuring adequate funding is needed. First, design a program to meet a state's goals and then determine the cost of that program. Second, designate how the resources to pay for that cost will be obtained. Third, specify how the funds will be distributed to local entities. The…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Program Design
Henderson, Michael B.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peterson, Paul E.; Werner, Katharina; West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2015
What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the two countries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German and American adult populations in 2014 that included experiments in which we…
Descriptors: Governance, School Policy, Educational Attitudes, National Surveys
Ringsmose, Charlotte; Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte Alexandra; Allerup, Peter – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
There is an increasing focus on early-childhood education quality globally, reflecting a growing political awareness that education starts earlier than primary school, and that high quality in day-care influence children's learning and development. In Denmark, almost all children attend day-care, and day-care institutions are considered part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Eva; Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2021
In Sweden, the national parliament has adopted objectives to implement the United Nations (UN) "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" (UNESCO, 2017). Sweden's objectives are more ambitious and far-reaching in several policy areas than the targets listed in the 2030 Agenda and outlined in the report "Agenda 2030 and Sweden:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Gülzau, Fabian – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
In this article, I investigate preschool children's participation in organised activities. Current political and academic debates consider informal education as a prime vehicle for potentially diminishing social class inequalities in educational outcomes before school entry. However, studies point to unequal participation rates between social…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learning Activities, Informal Education, Social Class
Sheridan, Sonja; Gjems, Liv – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The most important benefits of international comparisons are the indications that make hidden national characteristics visible and shed new light on the system in each country. From a comparative perspective, this article explores what Swedish and Norwegian preschool teachers emphasise as important to preschool student teachers about preschool as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teacher Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Teachers
Çoban, Ahmet – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
Education systems are largely shaped by the policies of political parties. Political parties try to express their policies regarding the structure and functioning of the education system through party programs. As in all countries, policies regarding the education system have an important place in party programs in Turkey. The aim of this study is…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Politics, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Smarick, Andy – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Although most education policy decisions are made at the state level, America has been having a national debate over the future of our schools for the last several years. Arguments have raged over COVID-related closures and the resultant student learning loss, Critical Race Theory, school funding, parental choice, college debt, and more. The 2022…
Descriptors: State Government, Government Employees, Elections, Educational Policy