Editors:
- Addresses the relationships between Chinese cultural values, early childhood policy and practice
- Critically discusses the influence of worldwide changes on early childhood education in Chinese societies
- Provides a comparatively holistic picture of early childhood education in Chinese societies
- Has implications for early childhood education in greater China and further afar
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 19)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies
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Early Childhood Education in the People’s Republic of China
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Early Childhood Education in Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Taiwan
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Learning from and for Chinese Early Childhood Education
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About this book
This book is the first English-language research-based review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the increased recognition of the importance of early childhood education for human capital development globally, and the international interest in understanding early education in Chinese societies.iv>
Keywords
- Chinese culture in early educational environments
- growing up in Chinese families and societies
- early childhood teacher education in China
- ece in economically disadvantaged rural areas
- early childhood programs after the Sichuan earthquake
- early childhood education in Hong Kong
- early childhood education in Macao
- governmentality of ECE in Singapore
- preschool education
- kindergarten education
- Confucian values
- pre-primary education
- early childhood education in Taiwan
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Nirmala Rao
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Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Jing Zhou
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Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jin Sun
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies
Editors: Nirmala Rao, Jing Zhou, Jin Sun
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1004-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1003-7Published: 01 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1462-2Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1004-4Published: 20 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education