Overview
- Unique in providing visions into early childhood care and education throughout the world
- Examines how the basic characteristics of quality in early childhood programs are realized
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of early childhood programs in a variety of approaches and settings
- 23 authors represent 12 different countries with various types of early childhood programs
- Valuable source of information about program initiation and assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Educating the Young Child (EDYC, volume 5)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Background
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Curriculum Content and Pedagogy
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Children with Special Needs
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The Early Childhood Educator
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Family, School, and Community Partnerships
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About this book
We live in a world that is transitioning from focus on early childhood education within individual countries into a global perspective that considers how early childhood education is conducted in many diverse cultures and environments. The challenge on a global basis is how to develop programs in countries and environments that are different from a specifically western perspective. Economic, geographic, and cultural influences infuse early childhood programs around the world.
In 1999, a group of educators representing 36 countries developed guidelines for establishing minimum standards for preschool programs. A purpose for developing the guidelines was to provide guidance for countries that wished to evaluate and improve their own programs. A second purpose was to help developing countries initiating preschools to have relevant information about quality programs. The later development of an assessment tool based on the Global Guidelines served as a vehicle to use the guidelines to assess a single program or multiple programs. The continuing work with these guidelines in many countries throughout the world since 2000 has resulted in the collection of information that reveals the uniqueness of programs in different countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Common Characteristics and Unique Qualities in Preschool Programs
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives in Early Childhood Education
Editors: Sue Clark Wortham
Series Title: Educating the Young Child
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4972-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4971-9Published: 24 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9673-7Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4972-6Published: 29 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2543-0610
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 182
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation