scholarly journals Assessment in New Zealand Early Childhood Education:  A Foucauldian Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emma Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Narrative Assessment ◽  
Regulatory Effects ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis

<p>This thesis aims to problematise and denaturalise the current dominant, empowerment infused early childhood education (ece) assessment discourse in Aoteaora New Zealand through a Foucauldian discourse analysis. It addresses a two-part question: How is contemporary ece assessment constructed in New Zealand, and, what is effected by this construction? Texts about contemporary ece assessment in New Zealand written by local ece scholars and practitioners as well as narrative assessment examples drawn from the Ministry of Education (2004) Kei Tua o te Pae, Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars resource provide data for the analysis. The analysis is conducted in procedurally specified as well as open, associative, and playful modes. Contemporary ece assessment in New Zealand is found to be constructed as a new, post-developmental, morally desirable and secular salvation practice that is underpinned by principles of social justice, plurality and diversity. However, a consideration of key discursive truth-objects and their mobilisation within narrative assessments suggests that ece assessment may be implementing a boundless and normalising regime for the government of selves and others, and producing significant regulatory effects for children, teachers and whānau/ family. It is argued that ece assessment, as a technology of government, works to construct self responsible, self optimising, and permanently performing child-subjects. Such norms for self government map closely onto those that are promoted within neoliberal governmentalities. Ece assessment can therefore, at least in part, be understood as both a technique and effect of neoliberal rationalities of government. The ongoing status and dominant construction of ece assessment as an empowering, socially just practice is seen to be problematic. It stifles debate about early childhood spaces, and it is implicated in the constraint of multiple possibilities for the government of selves and others.</p>

scholarly journals Assessment in New Zealand Early Childhood Education:  A Foucauldian Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emma Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Narrative Assessment ◽  
Regulatory Effects ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis

<p>This thesis aims to problematise and denaturalise the current dominant, empowerment infused early childhood education (ece) assessment discourse in Aoteaora New Zealand through a Foucauldian discourse analysis. It addresses a two-part question: How is contemporary ece assessment constructed in New Zealand, and, what is effected by this construction? Texts about contemporary ece assessment in New Zealand written by local ece scholars and practitioners as well as narrative assessment examples drawn from the Ministry of Education (2004) Kei Tua o te Pae, Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars resource provide data for the analysis. The analysis is conducted in procedurally specified as well as open, associative, and playful modes. Contemporary ece assessment in New Zealand is found to be constructed as a new, post-developmental, morally desirable and secular salvation practice that is underpinned by principles of social justice, plurality and diversity. However, a consideration of key discursive truth-objects and their mobilisation within narrative assessments suggests that ece assessment may be implementing a boundless and normalising regime for the government of selves and others, and producing significant regulatory effects for children, teachers and whānau/ family. It is argued that ece assessment, as a technology of government, works to construct self responsible, self optimising, and permanently performing child-subjects. Such norms for self government map closely onto those that are promoted within neoliberal governmentalities. Ece assessment can therefore, at least in part, be understood as both a technique and effect of neoliberal rationalities of government. The ongoing status and dominant construction of ece assessment as an empowering, socially just practice is seen to be problematic. It stifles debate about early childhood spaces, and it is implicated in the constraint of multiple possibilities for the government of selves and others.</p>

scholarly journals TIGA PILAR KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH DALAM PEMBINAAN PAUD

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Laelatul Istiqomah
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Government

Various problems of Early childhood Education (ECD) in Indonesia is about the opportunity the acquisition of early childhood education have been uneven and is still concentrated in urban areas, lack of teachers and teaching staff in terms of quantity and quality, and there are still many learning-oriented on the wishes of the parents rather than on the needs of the child. Depart from the real conditions of the early childhood education, to lead the realization of educational system as a social institution is strong and authoritative, the government has issued the three pillars of government policy in early childhood education in the Strategic plan of the Ministry of National Education from 2009 to 2014, and now the government has fine-tune these policies in the Strategic Framework Ministry of Education and Culture of the 2014-2019 strategic plan (Strategic plan update)

Superdiversity and critical multicultural pedagogies: Working with migrant families

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Chan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Critical Multiculturalism ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Demographic Shifts

International social unrest in recent years has resulted in many people choosing or being forced to leave their home countries to seek better lives elsewhere, causing drastic demographic shifts. Yet, it has been pointed out that institutional policies and practices in many countries have not caught up with such changing demographics, which have contributed to concerns highlighted via the notion of ‘superdiversity’ ( Vertovec, 2007 ). Due to the large influx of migrants over the past few decades, New Zealand and its early childhood education settings have become increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse. The country is now being described as a ‘superdiverse New Zealand’ and is facing challenges emerging from ‘a level of cultural complexity surpassing anything previously experienced’ ( Royal Society of New Zealand, 2013 : 1). Furthermore, population projections ( Statistics New Zealand, 2015 ) indicate that superdiversity will be a long-term phenomenon in New Zealand. Te Whāriki, the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, embraces diversity, recognising that the country ‘is increasingly multicultural’ ( Ministry of Education, 2017 : 1). In light of these concerns, this article considers the frameworks of superdiversity and critical multiculturalism with regard to transforming and developing policies and pedagogies that support working with superdiverse migrant children and their families by responding to migration-related equity and inclusion issues. This discussion has implications and relevance for both present and future early childhood education settings in New Zealand and in other countries with a large population of migrants.

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

scholarly journals Unintended Consequences: the Montessori Story of the Early Childhood Education Qualification  Requirement - 2000-2007

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sola Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Impact

<p>In 2002, the Ministry of Education in New Zealand released Pathways to the Future: Nga Huarahi Arataki. This 10year strategic plan for early childhood education was the culmination of years of advocacy, research and consultation within the early childhood sector. A key component of the plan is a staged requirement for teachers in early childhood centres to have a Diploma of Teaching ECE or equivalent qualification. The study analyses the impact on the Montessori early childhood sector of the requirement that teachers in a centre be qualified with a Diploma or equivalent. This thesis draws on the results of a qualitative study involving interviews with key policy informants and focus groups of teachers and the story that emerges describes the complexities, frustrations and positive outcomes for centres and their teachers. The story points to a need for support, intervention and creative strategies to ensure no part of the early childhood sector is left behind, and diversity within early childhood education in New Zealand is maintained. The final outcome of the study raises the dilemma faced by the Montessori community; how can the approach accommodate the current ideas of early childhood education brought to centres through the policy requirement and remain identifiably Montessori?</p>

scholarly journals Unintended Consequences: the Montessori Story of the Early Childhood Education Qualification  Requirement - 2000-2007

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sola Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Impact

<p>In 2002, the Ministry of Education in New Zealand released Pathways to the Future: Nga Huarahi Arataki. This 10year strategic plan for early childhood education was the culmination of years of advocacy, research and consultation within the early childhood sector. A key component of the plan is a staged requirement for teachers in early childhood centres to have a Diploma of Teaching ECE or equivalent qualification. The study analyses the impact on the Montessori early childhood sector of the requirement that teachers in a centre be qualified with a Diploma or equivalent. This thesis draws on the results of a qualitative study involving interviews with key policy informants and focus groups of teachers and the story that emerges describes the complexities, frustrations and positive outcomes for centres and their teachers. The story points to a need for support, intervention and creative strategies to ensure no part of the early childhood sector is left behind, and diversity within early childhood education in New Zealand is maintained. The final outcome of the study raises the dilemma faced by the Montessori community; how can the approach accommodate the current ideas of early childhood education brought to centres through the policy requirement and remain identifiably Montessori?</p>

scholarly journals Analysing the Early Childhood Qualification Implementation: The Experience of Montessori Centres

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sola Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Support Intervention ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Impact

In 2002, the Ministry of Education in New Zealand released Pathways to the Future: Nga Huarahi Arataki. This 10-year strategic plan for early childhood education was the culmination of years of advocacy, research and consultation within the early childhood sector. A key component of the plan was a staged requirement for teachers in positions of “person responsible” in early childhood centres to have a Diploma of Teaching ECE or equivalent qualification. This article analyses the impact of the first stage of the qualification requirement, using the results of a small qualitative study of six Montessori early childhood centres in Wellington, and reviews the context, literature and policy issues that inspired and drove the policy requirement. It concludes that practical difficulties for centres and their teachers to upgrade means there is a need to supervise the support, intervention and creative strategies used to ensure no one is left behind, and diversity within early childhood education in New Zealand is maintained.

scholarly journals Effect of Early Childhood Education on Socio-Economic Transformation of Communities in Rwanda

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Mukamana Claudete ◽  
◽  
Dr. Mukamazimpaka Marie Claire ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Government

The effective provision of basic education in Rwanda increases the competition level among graduates which promotionally improves the socio-economic transformation of communities. The purpose of this study therefore was to establish the effect of early childhood education on socio-economic transformation of communities in Nyamasheke district in Rwanda. The target population was 368 respondents that provided the sample size of 192 got using Yamane formula. Interview guide and questionnaire were used as data collection instruments. Correlation research design was also employed. The study findings revealed there is 31% of accessibility of ECE able to affect the level of socio-economic transformation of communities as indicated by the R square = .310 and the remaining 69% of socio-economic transformation of communities can be affected by other factors. However, it was found that, there is a statistically significant moderate relationship between accessibility ECE and socio-economic transformation of communities (P=.000 and r = .555). The study recommended the ministry of education which represents the government in the sector of Education should provide the adequate infrastructures of ECE schools in Nyamasheke district to improve and make easy accessibility of ECE in the area thus also increase the literacy level. The non-governmental organizations should invest more in ECE of Nyamasheke district in order to develop youth who are competent and able to compete at the labour market. Keywords: Early Childhood Education, Socio-economic transformation, Communities

The Stories We Share: Using Narrative Assessment to Build Communities of Literacy Participants in early Childhood Centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Hatherly
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Narrative Assessment ◽  
Literacy Learners ◽  
Te Whāriki

As the documented assessment of children becomes a taken-for-granted function of ‘what teachers do’, concerns are rightly raised about the time involved and the usefulness of this to enhance learning and teaching. This article draws on data collected as part of the development of Kei Tua o te Pae, Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars (Ministry of Education, 2004), a New Zealand resource designed to engage teachers in reflection about assessment practices within the framework of Te Whāriki. It tells the story—the author's story—of the ways in which documented assessment using techniques more associated with storytelling than with observation, invites participation of children, families and teachers and thereby becomes the means through which a community of literacy-learners and participants is developed. It is argued that, given the increasing pressure on centres to provide for literacy, documented assessments offer many possibilities for not just describing but also constructing literacy learning in meaningful contexts.

Barriers to and facilitators of inclusion and equity in the workplace for diverse early childhood kaiako

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Veronica Griffiths ◽  
Erin Hall ◽  
Derek Hartley ◽  
Fleur Hohaia-Rollinson ◽  
Karen Illston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

He Taonga te Tamaiti, Every Child a Taonga: Early Learning Action Plan 2019–2029 (Ministry of Education, 2019) presents goals directed towards strengthening quality provision in early childhood education (ECE) in Aotearoa New Zealand, including actions needed to attract and retain a diverse range of kaiako in the sector. Because “Kaiako are the key resource in any ECE service” (Ministry of Education, 2017, p. 59), they must feel safe, included, valued, and respected within early learning services and have good working conditions. We surveyed early childhood kaiako to find out more about the barriers to and facilitators of inclusion and equity in the workplace for diverse kaiako. The findings show that more can and should be done at all levels to support and protect the rights, wellbeing, belonging, mana, and needs of diverse kaiako in ECE.

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