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A Participatory Process of Developing a Recommendation for the Government about the Education of Children from Birth to Three Years: The Case of Portugal
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Vasconcelos, Teresa – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2013
This article describes how the Portuguese National Council for Education initiated a participatory process that gave rise to the development of a "public statement", "The Education for Children from Zero to Six Years". This statement and its 11 recommendations were directed towards the Ministry of Education and called for a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Planning, Early Childhood Education, Participative Decision Making
Children's Spaces as Sites for Ethical Practices: A "School-as-a-Tree" in an Economically Impoverished Neighbourhood
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Vasconcelos, Teresa – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2006
This paper attempts to help us to move our reflections beyond quality issues and introduces an example of an early childhood setting as a site for ethical practices. Drawing from philosophical works by Levinas and Readings and the work by feminists such as Tronto and Sevenhuijsen, it affirms an ethics of care for early childhood education and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ethics, Young Children