scholarly journals Implication of outdoor Environment on Children’s Learning Experiences in Public Preschools in Borabu Sub-County, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Godfrey Nyaoga Ayaga ◽  
Edward Khasakhala Okaya
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Government ◽  
Children's Learning

ABSTRACTBased on the findings of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) needs assessment study carried out in 2016, international best practices in education systems and curriculum reforms, and a desire to make learning more meaningful for the Kenyan scholar Government's initiated an overhaul the 8–4–4 education structure to Competency-based learning because it did not promote wholesome learning. Competency-based education and training is an approach to teaching and learning more often used in learning concrete skills than abstract learning. Early Childhood Development and Education has greatly been compromised globally. The EFA’s first goal stipulated that it is the responsibility of every Government to expand and enhance comprehensive Early Childhood Education. In this regard, provision of quality of the environment is very key in enhancing learning. This paper presents results from a study that was conducted in Borabu Sub-county in Kenya to determine the implication of outdoor environment on children’s learning experiences in public preschools. The major findings includes: the general state of outdoor environment component was unsatisfactory; there was a positive relationship between the state outdoor environment and pre-schoolers learning experiences related to preschool children’s ability to performing various loco-motor activities and rhythmic movement activities and general academic achievement. The results further indicated that when all the four states of outdoor (the site, availability, adequacy and effectiveness) investigated combined together explained 35.2% of the variance in the preschool overall learning experiences. The results from observation and interview schedules indicated that a rich outdoor environment had a positive influence on preschool children‘s development of various social, emotional and cognitive skills. The study recommends that teachers and pupils should participate in outdoor play. In addition, the government should put in place policy guidelines to all pre-schools with regard to the availability, adequacy and effectiveness of outdoor environment.Key Words: Competency-Based Curriculum; Outdoor Environment; Availability; Adequacy; Effectiveness; Learning Experiences

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN SIKAP POSITIF IBU-IBU WALI PAUD TERHADAP PEMBELAJARAN DI PAUD RW II TAMBAK WEDI SURABAYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Dewi Mustami’ah ◽  
Andi Maulida Rahmania ◽  
Anisa Nilasari
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
School Year ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Children's Learning

Tujuan dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini adalah untuk membentuk sikap positif ibu-ibu wali murid PAUD RW II Kelurahan Tambak Wedi Surabaya terhadap pembelajaran di PAUD. Permasalahan selama ini ibuibu menganggap pembelajaran di PAUD kurang ada manfaatnya karena hanya diajari bernyanyi, berjalan-jalan dan bermain saja. Sedangkan orang tua menghendaki ketika anak dimasukkan PAUD akan diajari menulis, berhitung dan membaca. Akibatnya orang tua terkadang tidak akan mengantarkan anaknya ketika sibuk atau punya aktifitas lain dan bahkan akan menghentikan anaknya ditengah tahun pelajaran. Anak tidak sampai tuntas mengikuti pembelajaran di PAUD sampai akhir tahun pelajaran. Dalam upaya meningkatkan sikap positif orang tua (ibu) pada pentingnya belajar di PAUD, maka diperlukan pemahaman terhadap orang tua melalui Focus Group Discussion tentang belajar anak PAUD, Belajar Bersama Anak melalui aktifitas ibu-anak. Untukmeningkatkan sikap positif ibu terhadap PAUD diperlukan pemahaman tentang perkembangan anak Usia Dini, Model belajar anak usia dini, pemilihan stimulant yang cocok untuk anak usia dini. Diharapkan dengan pemahaman yang tepat tentang Pendidikan anak usia dini orang tua akan memiliki sikap positif terhadap PAUD, sehingga orang tua akan berpartisipasi aktif dalam pembelajaran anak. Hasil Ibu-Ibu lebih memahami Pendidikan PAUD mengembangkan aspek fisik, panca indera, emosi, social, pengetahuan, agama pada anak melalui metode bermain. Sehingga ketika bunda PAUD mengajak anak-anak melompat-lompat, berlari atau berjalan-jalan, sebenarnya didalamnya terdapat pengetahuan berbaris, sabar menunggu aba-aba, mengerti teman di kanan kirinya, melatih kepekaan anak dalam mendengar perintah. Ibu-ibu juga memiliki pemahaman terkait bagaimana harus menghadapi anak-anak usia dini dan perilaku khasnya seperti senang berlarian, coret-coret dan ibu-ibu juga memiliki pandangan bagaimana mengelola emosi dengan lebih baik saat menghadapi anak. Ibu-ibu memperoleh gambaran stimulasi anak usia dini yang dapat dilakukan ibu dan anak di rumah dengan menggunakan bahan-bahan yang sederhana namun bertujuan untuk melatih kemampuan sensorik anak, yaitu kegiatan meremas kertas, dan menempel benda-benda kecil di kertas (misalnya biji-bijian (jagung, kedelai, beras, kacang-kacangan).ABSTRACTThe purpose of this community service activity is to establish a positive attitude towards the guardians of PAUD RW II students in Tambak Wedi Surabaya Village towards learning in PAUD. The problem so far has been that mothers consider learning in PAUD to be of no use because they are only taught to sing, walk and play. Whereas parents want PAUD when children are included, they will be taught to write, count and read. As a result parents sometimes will not deliver their children when they are busy or have other activities and will even stop their children in the middle of the school year. Children do not complete learning in PAUD until the end of the school year. In an effort to improve the positive attitude of parents (mothers) on the importance of learning in PAUD, it is necessary to understand parents through Focus Group Discussion on PAUD children’s learning, Learning With Children through mother-child activities. To improve the mother’s positive attitudetowards PAUD, an understanding of Early Childhood development, early childhood learning model, selection of stimulants suitable for early childhood is needed. It is expected that with proper understanding of early childhood education parents will have a positive attitude towards PAUD, so parents will actively participate in children’s learning. Results Mothers better understand PAUD education develops physical aspects, senses, emotions, social, knowledge, religion in children through playing methods. So when the mother of PAUD invites children to jump around, run or walk, in fact there is a lined up knowledge, patiently waiting for the cue, understanding the friend on her left and training the child in listening to commands. Mothers also have an understanding of how to deal with early childhood and their typical behaviors such as running around, scribbling and mothers also have a view on how to manage emotions better when facing children. Mothers get a picture of early childhood stimulation that can be done by mothers and children at home by using simpleingredients but aims to train children’s sensory abilities, namely the activity of squeezing paper, and sticking small objects on paper (for example, grains (corn, soybeans, rice, nuts).

scholarly journals Early Childhood Development and Poverty Reduction in the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ha ◽  
Ye Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Government

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has eliminated absolute poverty in 2020. Its recent national 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025) highlights improving the quality of human capital as an essential goal. Research has shown that investing in early childhood development generates the highest rates of return and leads to better education, health, social, and economic outcomes. After decades of neglect, the government has been increasing investment in preschool education targeting children in ages 3–6 years since 2010. This paper recommends that a comprehensive and equitable early childhood development service system must be a priority in building essential public service systems.

scholarly journals Early Childhood Education Services in Manzini Region in Eswatini: Equality and Accessibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-186
Author(s):  
Sithulisiwe Bhebhe ◽  
Ntokozo Vilakati
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Privately Owned

Education services are meant for developing the cognitive capacities of all individuals, though this may vary with individuals given their variable genetic make-up. Early childhood education is one way in which children are developed for the future. This study sought to establish how early childhood education services were valued, made available and accessible to children in a developing country. Open-ended interviews and observations were the instruments used for data collection. Thematic analysis was the data analysis method used in this study. The findings of the study revealed that there were benefits in preschool education and that those learners who missed early childhood education were slow and took long to grasp concepts. The study also found that in the Kingdom of Eswatini not all children of early childhood going age go to school due to limited finances, poverty and sicknesses. The study concluded that privately-owned early childhood development centres are expensive and most parents could not afford the fees. The study recommended that the ministry should consider ECE and start funding preschool education and also provide a documented curriculum to ensure that children who attended preschool get the required skill as expected. The Ministry of Education needs to provide for ECE if they have to achieve their goal of providing equal and quality education to all Eswatini children. The ministry should be prepared to build more preschools, to at least see each primary school having a preschool owned by the government linked to it

Long-term Effects of Preschool on School Performance, Earnings and Social Mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-49
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Raut
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Lifetime Earnings

Children from disadvantaged families perform very poorly in school and labour market because they acquire low level of social, motivational and cognitive skills during their early childhood development. Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then estimates the production processes for cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills such as social and motivational skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and lifetime earnings of an individual. Using these estimated relationships, the paper provides a calibrated intergenerational altruistic model of parental investment in children's preschool. This dynamic model is then used to estimate the effects of publicly provided preschool to the children of poor socioeconomic status (SES) as a social contract on lifetime earnings distribution, intergenerational college and social mobility, and to estimate the tax burden of such a social contract. JEL Classifications: J24, J62, O15, I21

scholarly journals Elements of Child-Friendly Environment: The Effort to Provide an Anti-Violence Learning Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Sigit Purnama
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
Mental Aspect ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

This article reported the important of child-friendly environment to reduce violence against children. A child-friendly environment is able to change an aggressive behavior to be a positive behaviour. In the opposite, an unfriendly environment, will increase the aggressive behavior in children. Both indoor and outdoor environment are as one of the circle dimension that are able to stimulate the early childhood development with a positive behaviour. The environment is constructed from some elements, such as line, shape and color. Each of them has psychological impression that varies and at once is able to affect the mental aspect of a child. With the effective elements, variation and its balance, will establish a child-friendly environment. The enviromnet that secure and comfortable that will be able to stimulate the early childhood development and also to reduce their aggressive behaviour. Keywords: elements, a child-friendly environment, violence. Artikel ini memaparkan pentingnya lingkungan yang ramah untuk mengurangi perilaku kekerasan yang terjadi pada anak usia dini. Lingkungan yang ramah mampu mengubah perilaku agresif menjadi positif. Sebaliknya, lingkungan yang tidak ramah anak, justru akan meningkatkan perilaku agresif. Lingkungan indoor dan outdoor merupakan salah satu dimensi lingkungan yang dapat menstimuli perkembangan anak usia dini agar terbentuk perilaku positif. Lingkungan tersebut dibangun oleh beberapa elemen, seperti garis, bentuk, dan warna. Masing-masing elemen memiliki kesan psikologi yang bervariasi dan sekaligus dapat mempengaruhi psikologi anak. Penggunaan elemen-elemen yang tepat, bervariasi, dan seimbang akan membentuk lingkungan yang ramah anak, yakni lingkungan yang aman, nyaman, yang akan dapat menstimuli perkembangan dan mengurangi perilaku agresif anak usia dini. Kata Kunci: elemen, lingkungan ramah anak, kekerasan.  

Looking away: An analysis of early childhood teaching and learning experiences framed through a quality metric

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Classroom Quality ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Quality Metric ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Early Childhood Settings ◽  
Children's Learning

In this article, the author examines the ways in which a classroom quality metric framed the teaching and learning experiences of teachers and children in three Head Start classrooms. Using comic subjectivity theory, the author critically analyzes the ways in which the high-stakes classroom quality measure used in Head Start settings directed her gaze as a researcher, and had implications for teachers’ practice and children’s learning within the site of this gaze. This analysis raises questions about expectations for teachers’ performativity, the role of researchers’ complicity, and how children’s learning is conceptualized in early childhood classrooms that are heavily accountable to outside forces. This article also considers what the costs may be for teachers and children in early childhood settings where quality is conceptualized in ways that stand in stark contrast to teachers’ professional and personal knowledge. In these sites, their knowledge of and engagement with children is made subject to measure-directed regimes in the current accountability-driven era.

scholarly journals Contestability in the Special Education and Early Childhood Sectors: A Mechanism for Countering Equity

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Meade
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Childhood Care ◽  
The Government ◽  
Voluntary Choice

The reforms in education in New Zealand in the late 1980s were characterised by their concentration on the administrative system whereas other countries had curriculum and assessment changes as well. I want to explore an administrative measure in this paper – a measure called “contestability”. Contestability refers to the principle of “alternative provision”. Alternative provisions are being promoted by Market Liberals to give consumers a choice, which they see as highly desirable. The Treasury, in its 1987 Brief to the Incoming Government, stirred up a debate on “voluntary choice versus state direction” (1987, p. 17). The debate has been active ever since. The 1989 policy statements – by and large – restricted the introduction of contestability to non-educational operations, (such as the supply of stationery to schools), although they indicated that alternative educational provisions would be approved in future years. When the National Party was elected to government in late 1990, it soon became apparent that it would translate Market Liberal philosophy into policies. An “Economic and Social Initiative Statement” was released within weeks, and it clearly indicated a Market Liberal agenda. Choice versus state intervention was a dominating concept, and the debate fostered by The Treasury in 1987 was alive again. I believe this debate is on-going mostly because the Treasury and the State Services Commission are persistent. The Treasury argues for less state intervention in education because governments curtail people’s “sphere of responsibility” and weaken their “self-steering ability ... to reach optimal solutions through the mass of individual actions pursuing free choice” (Treasury, 1987). A second assumption of Market Liberals is that organisations, including non-commercial educational organisations, maintain efficiency when there is exposure to potential or actual competitors. By 1992, the Government had become pro-active in actioning the principle of contestability for educational services; that is, it was actively encouraging alternative providers to compete where the Welfare State used to be the sole provider of such services. In 1992 there were two significant structures in which the contestable provision of educational services was being introduced. These were the Crown agencies which provide support services to teachers, managers and parents: the Special Education Service, providing specialist support and interventions for children with special educational needs, and the Early Childhood Development Unit which is associated with early childhood care and education...

Review of Play and Early Childhood Development.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 730-730
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Childhood Development
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