scholarly journals A Probe into the Popularization Ways of Early Childhood Educational Drama in Kindergartens

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zheng ◽  
Yuanyuan Nie ◽  
Ramir S. Austria
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Educational Drama ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
General Acceptance

Early childhood education drama lessons can be simply explained as educationally meaningful drama training for children before the compulsory education stage. Its educational characteristics are preschool children as the main body of education, paying attention to the preservation and protection of children’s nature, and through educational drama Symbolic games, imagination games, pretend games, social drama games and other links further expand children's social cognition. Its purpose is to inspire the development of students in moral education through the art form of educational drama, and use drama as a carrier to further liberate children’s nature, enlighten children’s minds, improve children’s personality and through participating in drama appreciation, creation, performance, and imitation. Play a vital role in children's creativity and other aspects. However, there are still many huge problems in the general acceptance and large-scale promotion of early childhood education drama classes in our inland cities. I have discovered the current promotion of kindergarten education drama classes by exploring the promotion methods of early childhood education drama classes in kindergartens. The biggest problem is the lack of professional teachers' resources and the kindergarten's insufficient understanding of the importance of educational drama.

(In)visible perceptions of objects (‘things’) during early transitions: Intertwining subjectivities in ECEC

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912110279
Author(s):  
E Jayne White ◽  
Fiona Westbrook ◽  
Kathryn Hawkes ◽  
Waveney Lord ◽  
Bridgette Redder
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Object A ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Mediating Tools ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
To Receive

Objects in early childhood education (ECEC) experiences have begun to receive a great deal more attention than ever before. Although much of this attention has emerged recently from new materialism, in this paper we turn to Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological concern with the (in)visibility of ‘things’ to illuminate the presence of objects within infant transitions. Drawing on notions of écart and reversibility, we explore the relational perceptions objects are bestowed with on the lead up to, and first day of, infant transitions. Recognizing the intertwining subjectivities that perceive the object, a series of videos and interviews with teachers and parents across three ECEC sites in Australia and New Zealand provided a rich source of phenomenological insight. Our analysis reveals objects as deeply imbued anchoring links that enable relational possibilities for transitions between home and ECEC service. Visible and yet invisible to adults (parents and/or teachers) who readily engage with objects during earliest transitions, the significance of things facilitates opportunities to forge new relationships, create boundaries and facilitate connections. As such, our paper concludes that objects are far more than mediating tools, or conceptual agents; they provide an explicit route to understanding with potential to play a vital role in supporting effective early transitions when granted visibility within this important phenomenon.

scholarly journals Editorial: Opening for debate and contestation: OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study and the testing of children’s learning outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Claudia Diaz-Diaz ◽  
Paulina Semenec ◽  
Peter Moss
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
Childhood Education

This special issue aims to bring critical perspectives to bear on a growing phenomenon in education: comparative assessment of educational performance using standardized measures of outcomes or ‘international large-scale assessments’. We focus on one of its latest examples: the International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study. Proposed by the Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, n.d.a) in 2012, this study is now being put into practice, targeting early childhood education and young children in particular. The articles in this edited collection offer varied critiques of this project as well as critiques of the influential role that the OECD is playing in how member countries design, implement and assess their early childhood education.

scholarly journals Educação Ambiental e Apropriação de Valores: um Diálogo Possível na Educação Infantil

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Cristiane Magalhães Bissaco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education Environment

Partindo do entendimento de que a Educação Ambiental deve ser uma prática intencionalizada e coerente, este trabalho se propõe a realizar uma revisão bibliográfica que articule o campo teórico da Educação Ambiental com o da Educação Infantil, a fim de observar os limites e as possibilidades da prática docente ao tratar da construção ou apropriação de valores. Assim, os seguintes questionamentos norteiam a pesquisa: que práticas docentes podem ser identificadas em relação à apropriação de valores? Elas abarcam a temática ambiental? Em que contextos são pesquisadas? A Educação Infantil é um desses contextos? Para tal discussão foram levantados nove artigos internacionais, que levam o leitor a compreender que as práticas docentes em relação aos valores ensinados são distintas de um artigo para outro: sendo dois deles como prática moral, três como construção, dois como socialização, um como formação de hábitos e um como clarificação. Apenas dois dos artigos não abarcam a temática ambiental. Em relação ao contexto de pesquisa, neste levantamento os artigos estão assim distribuídos: cinco destinados à Infância - Educação Básica, um trata da Educação básica com adolescentes e três destinados ao Ensino Superior. Portanto, concluiu-se que a Educação Infantil é um dos contextos em que a Educação Ambiental tem sido pesquisada, principalmente, no que se refere à apropriação de valores pertinentes à temática ambiental. Palavras-chave: Educação Moral. Meio Ambiente. Infância. AbstractBased on the understanding that Environmental Education should be an intentional and coherent practice, this paper proposes to perform a literature review that articulates the theoretical field of Environmental Education with that of Early Childhood Education, in order to observe the limits and possibilities of teaching practice, when dealing with the value construction or appropriation. Thus, the following questions guide the research: What  teaching practices can be identified in relation to the values appropriation ? Do they cover the environmental theme? In what contexts are they researched? Is early childhood education one of these contexts? For this discussion nine international articles were raised, which lead the reader to understand that teaching practices in relation to the values taught are distinct from one article to another: two of them as moral practice, three as construction, two as socialization, one as habits formation and one as clarification. Only two of the articles do not cover the environmental theme. Regarding the research context, in this survey the articles are directed to: five for Childhood - Basic Education, one for Basic Education with adolescents and three for Higher Education. Therefore, it was concluded that early childhood education is one of the contexts in which environmental education has been researched, especially regarding the appropriation of values relevant to the environmental theme. Keywords: Moral Education. Environment. Childhood. 

scholarly journals Inculcation Religiosity in Preschoolers Local content curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Muhammad Munadi ◽  
Watik Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Spirituality ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Santa Maria

Millennial era life is a big challenge, humans need a strong footing to face all the problems. Religion is God's guidance that becomes the handle of life and it is important to instill religious beliefs early on. The purpose of this study was to find the cultivation of religiosity in preschool children in Kindergarten Aisyiyah Branch and Kindergarten Santa Maria in Kartasura Regency. This study uses qualitative methods with data collection tools, namely interviews, direct observation, and document analysis. Data validated using triangulation of methods and sources. The results showed that the religiosity of planting in the TK Aisyiyah Kartasura branch had more burdens than in the Santa Maria Kindergarten. While its nature is more balanced between vertical ritual content and horizontal content in TK Aisyiyah Kartasura branches compared to TK Santa Maria. The cultivation of moral education is carried out through a step-by-step process starting with teaching to say and answer greetings (Islam), saying good morning and evening to non-Muslims and inviting children to always pray in every activity. Vertical ritual planting in TK Aisyiyah Kartasura branch has more burden through the practice of prayer, memorizing prayers and memorizing short letters from the Qur'an all in Arabic compared to TK Santa Maria only emphasizes the memorization of prayer in Indonesian. Keywords: Inculcation religiosity, Pre-schoolers, Local content curriculum References: Adams, K., Bull, R., & Maynes, M. L. (2016). Early childhood spirituality in education: Towards an understanding of the distinctive features of young children’s spirituality. 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‘I have this subversive curriculum underneath’: Narratives of micro resistance in early childhood education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2110599
Author(s):  
Nathan Archer
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Childhood Education

Neoliberal thinking has increasingly shaped global and national policy incursions in early childhood education. Research has highlighted the power effects of such policies with consequences for pedagogy, provision and the professional identities of educators. Less well understood are educator responses to these policies. Whilst literature offers some exploration of resistance movements, little is known from empirical studies about how acts of resistance are enacted individually (and collectively) in the professional lives of early years educators. This article explores how English early childhood educators resist policy constructions of ideal professional identities. Using reconceptualized critical theory, this paper considers both neoliberal shaped demands on early educators and their resistance to these. Employing data from professional life story interviews ( n = 16) by early educators in a range of contexts, narratives were constructed which document their responses to ECE policies. This paper draws on three of these narratives. A Critical Narrative Analysis reveals that educator resistances are not always large scale, collective or mobilized but are often expressed in atomized contexts through a dispersed network of actors. Individual responses included ‘micro resistances’ which were often local, quiet and invisible but multiple. The paper offers novel insights into c/overt resistances revealing educators’ complex, nuanced and subversive responses to discursive policy manoeuvres.

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