A Historical Study on the Integration of Early Childhood Education and Childcare in Korea

Cheol-Hee Park

doi:10.25020/je.2021.41.4.127

A Historical Study on the Integration of Early Childhood Education and Childcare in Korea

The Institute for Education and Research Gyeongin National University of Education ◽

10.25020/je.2021.41.4.127 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 127-142

Author(s):

Cheol-Hee Park

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Historical Study ◽

Childhood Education

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Re-imagining play spaces in early childhood education: Supporting girls’ motive orientation to STEM in times of COVID-19

Journal of Early Childhood Research ◽

10.1177/1476718x20969848 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1476718X2096984

Author(s):

Marilyn Fleer

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Role Playing ◽

Historical Study ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Educational Experiment ◽

Science Technology ◽

Video Observations ◽

And Mathematics ◽

General Community

In unprecedented times, the global community is calling for greater knowledge and engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to support the decision making and practices of the general community. COVID-19 has highlighted this pressing need and inviting a ‘new normal’. But STEM is not the core business of early childhood. What role can the early childhood education research community take? This paper reports on a cultural-historical study that investigated how a Conceptual PlayWorld changed the traditional Froebelian play areas to support girls’ play and motives in STEM. The question guiding that study was how could a Conceptual PlayWorld overcome the problems previously identified in the literature on girls’ inclusion in STEM activities in preschools. In our educational experiment we implemented a Conceptual PlayWorld over 12 weeks (123 hour of digital video observations), with a focus on role-playing ‘as if’ engineers and scientists (five 4-year-olds and eight 5-year-olds). The outcomes show how a Conceptual PlayWorld created new kinds of 21century learning areas. Spaces traditionally difficult for girls to enter, were transformed and afforded completely new ways of playing, shown to be inclusive of girls, and disrupted gendered interactions and divergence.

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Early-Childhood Education for the Developmentally Delayed: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Evaluation

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1002.81 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 81-92

Author(s):

Susan Freedman Gilbert

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

School Children ◽

Developmental Delays ◽

Delayed Diagnosis ◽

Language Impairments ◽

Developmentally Delayed ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Childhood Education

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.

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