Parental Engagement and Early Childhood Education Around the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Garvis ◽  
Sivanes Phillipson ◽  
Heidi Harju-Luukkainen ◽  
Alicja Renata Sadownik
PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1085-1087
Author(s):  
Patrick Olin MD, PhD ◽  
B. N. Tandon ◽  
Julius S. Meme ◽  
E. Lee Ford-Jones ◽  
Mark Belsey ◽  
...  

If we are committed to the health and development of children, we need to recognize that the vast majority of the world's women are working women. In Africa, 80% of the women are actively engaged in economic activities outside the home. The "economic miracle" in Southeast Asia was made possible by the nimble fingers of thousands of women working in textile and electronics factories. There is need for pre-day-care advocacy for infants, through promotion of breast feeding and maternity leave. When the mother returns to work, the standard of the International Labor Organization should be applied, namely "...the care of children while the parents are working cannot be ignored because it forms a focal point on which three main concerns of development policy—work, health, and education—converge." Several principles emerged from the presentations in the international panel: 1. Child-care programs must be community based, using the resources of the families and the community organizations themselves. 2. Programs require the active involvement of the communities, women's groups, and other partners. 3. Programs are modified by innovations created by community organizations, universities, and other groups. 4. Programs require the mobilization of trained young men and women into the field of early childhood education and development. This international panel provided an overall uniting theme, that throughout the world the hope for the survival and better life for children unites parents of every country and every creed. This is one of the most powerful and strongest motivational resources in the world. We need to recognize the power of this hope and address that hope, providing with a certain degree of humility that there exist no single model, and no single country has all the answers. By respecting the ideas of the many innovations and different approaches of women, parents, and families, we can find the answers. There is a clear need for national networks as well as for international networks, exchanges of information, sharing of experience, and mobilization of the social resources in advocating early childhood education and development for the world's children.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Line Togsverd ◽  
Jan Jaap Rothuizen ◽  
Hanne Hede Jørgensen ◽  
Stephan Weise

ResuméI denne artikel udfoldes et pædagogisk begreb om modstand, der tager udgangspunkt i et forskningsprojekt, hvor vi, sammen med pædagogerne selv, har undersøgt pædagogers fortællinger om praksis, for at komme på sporet af deres forståelser af god pædagogik. Med afsæt i det empiriske materiale og teoretisk støtte i den pædagogiske opdragelsesfilosofi viser vi, hvordan barnets erfaringer med at opleve og komme overens med modstand, forstås som et produktivt og essentielt anliggende i daginstitutionspædagogikken. Artiklen giver indblik i en betydelig kompleksitet og dynamik forbundet med den måde, pædagogerne forstår og fortolker den pædagogiske opgave, det er, at støtte børnene i at engagere sig i en verden og et fællesskab og samtidig blive sig selv. Vi viser, hvordan pædagogernes fortolkninger har resonans i kulturelt overleverede pædagogiske narrativer om betydningen af at arbejde med barnets vilje, og udlæser et begreb om myndigblivelse, der ikke har fornuften som grundtone, men snarere det at ville sin vilje. Dermed peger artiklen på, at pædagoger opererer med en fortolkning og forståelse af god pædagogik, der er i samklang med Dagtilbudslovens brede formål om opdragelse til demokrati og selvstændiggørelse. AbstractAbout resistance, freedom and coming of age in early childhood education. In order to get an insight in the knowledge early childhood educators bring into play in their daily practices, we have explored about 200 stories from everyday life in Danish Day Care Institutions in collaboration with the pedagogues. What struck us in the analysis of the stories was that the pedagogical importance of resistance was repeatedly mentioned in the pedagogues search for realizing “good pedagogy” in everyday-life. The article points to pedagogues engagements in dealing tactfully with the resistance children encounter as a concern for children’s being in the world, more specifically: children’s ability to make themselves at home in the world (Cleary & Hogan, 2001; Gadamer, 2000). The article argues that engaging in such resistance in tactful ways is also a concern for a formation of the child’s will, enabling the appearance of the child’s subjectivity and the realization of promising children´s communities.


2019 ◽  
pp. 98-111
Author(s):  
Margaret Somerville ◽  
Sarah Powell ◽  
Narelle Trist

This paper explores the pedagogies of a Murrawarri/Dharug co-researcher enacted during three activities: becoming animal; welcome dance; and message sticks. We think-with Trist and consider the possibilities of being-Country in urban places. The research draws on data collected as part of Naming the World, an international project informed by posthuman and new materialist theorizing and Indigenous understandings of humans as fully intertwined with the world. We grapple with the intersection of posthuman and new materialist perspectives alongside Indigenous onto-epistemologies in early childhood education settings.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Daniela Fenu Foerch ◽  
Flavia Iuspa

This article presents the history and framework of the Reggio Emilia philosophy, an educational approach to early childhood education that places children as the main participants and protagonists of the curriculum. It also showcases the growing influence of the Reggio Emilia philosophy around the world, through key regional and national organizations. The association of the Emilia fundamental values of the Reggio Emilia with the globally competent soft skills helps this philosophy to overcome the growing need worldwide. Ultimately, the internationalization of this approach has inspired teaching practices all over the world. Within different nations, organizations that advocate the application of Reggio Emilia principles in various schools has grown, prompting a need to educate children to that they will develop emotionally and cognitively, in making thinking visible.


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