Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care: Slovak Republic 2012

Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care: Slovak Republic 2012
Author: Taguma Miho
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9264175652

This series of reports on early childhood education and care suggests strengths and point to areas for further reflection on current policy initiatives. This report on the Slovak Republic focuses on improving workforce qualifications, training and working conditions.

Education Policy Outlook 2018 Putting Student Learning at the Centre

Education Policy Outlook 2018 Putting Student Learning at the Centre
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9264301526

Taking the students’ perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 ...

Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
Author: Julie Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317663616

Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations. This insightful research text tackles one of the most significant contemporary issues of our times – the nexus between society and environment – and how early childhood education can contribute to sustainable living. By offering international and multidisciplinary research perspectives on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, each chapter explores and investigates the complex topic of sustainability and its relationship to early childhood education. A particular emphasis that runs through this text is young children as empowered citizens, capable of both contributing to and creating change for sustainability. The chapter authors work from, or are aligned with, a transformative education paradigm that suggests the socio-constructivist frameworks currently underpinning Early Childhood Education require reframing in light of the social transformations necessary to address humanity’s unsustainable, unjust and unhealthy living patterns. This research text is designed to be provocative and challenging; in so doing it seeks to encourage exploration of current understandings about Early Childhood Education for Sustainability, offers new dimensions for more deeply informed practice, and proposes avenues for further research in this field.