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Macfarlane, Kym; Lewis, Patricia – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex field comprised of practitioners who possess disparate qualifications and understandings. While this diversity provides richness in terms of practice possibilities, it can also be challenging in terms of the divisions produced by different disciplinary and philosophical approaches. This is…
Descriptors: Activism, Early Childhood Education, Children, Foreign Countries
Ahmad, Mumtaz – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
The World Conference on Education for All (1990) stated that learning begins at birth. The Dakar Framework for Action (2000) included the expansion and improvement of early childhood care and education as the first of six global goals. A number of countries have launched a variety of efforts to meet their global commitment to the development of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Educational Assessment
Dalli, Carmen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
A 10-year strategic plan for early childhood education introduced by the New Zealand Ministry of Education in 2002 included policies to create a teacher-led early childhood profession by 2012. This article reviews the provisions of the strategic plan and argues that it emerged from a critical ecology of the early childhood profession with a…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Early Childhood Education, Ecology, Foreign Countries
Hunzai, Zohra Nisar – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
Despite the enormous demand for early childhood education care and education, it remains a privilege for young children in most of the world's nine high population countries, known as the E-9 group (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan), according to a report published by UNESCO (2003). The World…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Development, Investment
Lee, Kenneth Siu Woo; Na, Anna Yeung On; Yee, Wong Shuk – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Hong Kong's most recent education reform proposal is the "Consultation Document of the Working Party on Harmonisation of Pre-primary Services" ("Consultation Document".) This examines the feasibility of combining kindergarten and childcare centres and having one single body regulating them. It has stimulated great responses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Consultation Programs, Position Papers