International Journal of Early Childhood back issues from January 2006:
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR/LETTRE DES EDITEURS/CARTA DE LOS EDITORES
Jan 01, 2006; ... This issue of the International Journal of Early Childhood focuses on questions of curriculum and curricula in a wide sense; as a national or local programme for Early Childhood Education and Care, as an ideological agenda, as a content of learning or as practice. Moreover, the articles span the ...
FIVE PRESCHOOL CURRICULA - COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY In recent years the OECD has undertaken the evaluation of early childhood education and care (ECEC) on behalf of ministers of education in a number of countries in order to support quality improvement in this field. This article is based on a workshop for the national ...
"THE VALUE IS ENORMOUS - IT'S PRICELESS I THINK!" NEW ZEALAND PRESCHOOL TEACHERS' UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM IN NEW ZEALAND - A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY This article examines a group of New Zealand preschool teachers' perspectives on their early childhood curriculum - Te Whãriki: He Whãriki Maatauranga mo ngaa Mokopuna o Aotearoa (Ministry of Education, 1996). In this discussion we focus on the teachers' understandings of the ...
INFANT AND TODDLER TEACHERS AS TRANSMITTERS OF CULTURE
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY What role do infant and toddler teachers play in transmitting their culture? Symbolic and cultural mediation approaches suggest children learn how to be members of their culture through social interactions and that this process begins at least by 9 months of age if not from ...
CURRICULUM IN PRESCHOOL
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY The author introduces and discusses the new Danish preschool curriculum for children ages ½ to 6 years from a critical point of view and calls for a more extensive perspective embracing the German Bildung theory. The author advocates a curriculum emphasising a critical content, ...
EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULA IN SWEDEN FROM THE 1850S TO THE PRESENT
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY This article introduces the curriculum history of early childhood education in Sweden. The study is based on curriculum theory and gender theory. A broad curricular concept is used. The period analysed ranges from approximately the 1850s to the present day. Examples of key-texts ...
MATHEMATICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - THE EARLY YEARS MATHS CURRICULUM IN THE UK AND CHILDREN'S NUMERICAL DEVELOPMENT
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY The recent development of the British early years (3 - 5years) maths curriculum is described as a function of successive educational reforms aimed at the primary school curriculum in general and the primary maths curriculum (5-12 years) in particular. Contradictions within this ...
CHILD-CENTRED PRACTICE IN IRISH INFANT CLASSROOMS - A CASE OF IMAGINARY PLAY?
Jan 01, 2006; ... SUMMARY This paper begins by outlining and discussing the fundamental elements of the process, child-centred model of curriculum, which has informed the two most recent Irish primary school curricula Curaclam na Bunscoile (1971 to 1999) and the Primary School Curriculum (1999 to date) ....