Contemporary Issues and Challenge in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. A Changed Agenda for Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific

   • Susan Grieshaber

   Pages 1-11

3. Re-conceptualising Early Childhood Education and Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-15

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   2. Marketization and Corporation of Early Childhood Care and Education in Singapore

      • Sirene Lim

      Pages 17-32

   3. Reconceptualist Work in a Colonising Context: Challenges for Australian Early Childhood Education

      • Melinda G. Miller

      Pages 33-50

   4. Has the Universal Free Childcare Policy Been Successful? Issues and Challenges for Early Childhood Education and Care in Korea

      • Eunhy Park, Hong-Ju Jun

      Pages 51-64

   5. Prophesying Early Childhood Educational Care in India: My Insider/Outsider Postcolonial Vision

      • Parasanna Srinivasan

      Pages 65-81

   6. A Hong Kong Version of Early Chinese Literacy Education: A Sinophone Perspective

      • Po Chi Tam

      Pages 83-102

   7. What Does the Gap Between Advocated Theories and Realistic Practice Mean: A Re-Conceptualization of the Early Childhood Curriculum Reform in China

      • Jie Zhang, Jiaxiong Zhu

      Pages 103-121

4. Re-Examining Standards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124

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   2. In Human-Capital We Trust, on Developmentalism We Act: The Case of Indonesian Early Childhood Education Policy

      • Ali Formen

      Pages 125-142

   3. The Australian Early Years Learning Framework and ICT: A Part of Life or Apart from Life?

      • Jillian L. Fox, Carmel M. Diezmann

      Pages 143-163

   4. The Spectre of Standards in Aotearoa New Zealand Early Childhood Education and Care

      • Alexandra C. Gunn, N. Ruth Gasson

      Pages 165-179

   5. The Early Learning and Development Guidelines in China: Retrospective and Prospective Views

      • Hongyu Gao, Liyan Huo

      Pages 181-197

5. Redefining Professionalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-201

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   2. Re-Thinking Discourse of Teacher Professionalism in Early Childhood Education: An Australian Perspective

      • Megan Gibson, Tamara Cumming, Lyn Zollo

      Pages 203-219

   3. Policy Trends in Teacher Professionalization and Professionalism in India

      • Amita Gupta

      Pages 221-239

   4. Re-conceptualising Quality Early Childhood Education: What Does Soka Education Have to Offer?

      • Kiiko Ikegami, Susan Grieshaber

      Pages 241-258

   5. Is China Pre-primary Teacher Workforce Ready for a Big Jump in Enrolment?

      • Minyi Li, Liwei Liu, Xin Fan

      Pages 259-273

   6. Building Quality Early Childhood Education from the Ground Up: Teacher Preparation in Vanuatu

      • Emma Pearson, Jenny James

      Pages 275-292

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.

• Asia-pacific region
• Comparative education
• Early childhood curriculum
• Early childhood policy
• Early childhood professionalism
• Professionalism

• Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

  Minyi Li

• Australia Catholic University, Sydney , Australia

  Jillian Fox

• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  Susan Grieshaber

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