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 ◽  
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Dr. Mukamazimpaka Marie Claire ◽  

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

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Laelatul Istiqomah

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)


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-186
Author(s):  
Sithulisiwe Bhebhe ◽  
Ntokozo Vilakati

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


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Emma Buchanan

<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>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Emma Buchanan

<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>


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Andri Hadiansyah ◽  
Fidesrinur Fidesrinur ◽  
Masni Erika Firmiana

<p><em>Abstrak</em> – <strong>Ketentuan tentang </strong><strong>Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD) </strong><strong>sudah diatur dalam pasal </strong><strong>28 Undang-Undang</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Republik Indonesia Nomor 20 tahun 2003</strong><strong> tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional. </strong><strong>Pada dasarnya banyak cara yang telah dilakukan Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan untuk memperluas akses layanan PAUD bagi seluruh lapisan masyarakat, antara lain (1) bantuan pendirian/rintisan satuan PAUD baru, (2) bantuan pembangunan/penyediaan fasilitas PAUD, dan (</strong><strong>3</strong><strong>) penambahan satuan layanan PAUD yang sudah berjalan s</strong><strong>e</strong><strong>perti TK/KB/TPA/SPS. Namun tentunya pemerintah tidak bisa bergerak sendiri, karena itu banyak lembaga atau yayasan lain yang ikut serta dalam upaya ini, salah satunya Yayasan</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Asih Foundation (YAF). Lembaga ini sudah berhasil memberdayakan masyarakat dalam hal pendirian dan pembinaan lembaga PAUD di seluruh Indonesia, termasuk di Jabotabek. Riset ini akan mendeskripsikan tentang strategi pemberdayaan yang diterapkan oleh Yayasan Asih Foundation. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif, dengan subjek 3 sekolah di Jabotabek. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah wawancara dan observasi. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa pemberdayaan msyarakat yang dilakukan oleh Yayasan Asih Foundation berada di level messo. Lembaga PAUD dapat merasakan perubahan dan manfaat dari pembinaan yang diberikan oleh YAF meski pembinaan yang utama hanya berlangsung selama 2 tahun. PAUD binaan ini dapat mengembangkan diri</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Kata Kunci</em></strong> – <em>Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, Pembangunan Masyarakat, Pengembangan Masyarakat</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Abstract</em> - <strong>The regulation on Early Childhood Education has been regulated in Article 28 of Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2003 on National Education system. Basically, many ways have been done by the Ministry of Education and Culture to expand access to early childhood education services for all levels of society, among others (1) support the establishment/ stub new Early Childhood Education unit, (2) help construction/provision of EDC facilities, (3) and the addition of early childhood services units such as TK / KB / TPA / SPS. But of course the government cannot move alone, therefore many institutions or other foundations that participate in this effort, one of the Asih Foundation. This institution has succeeded in empowering the community in terms of establishment and development of Early Childhood Education institutions across Indonesia, including in Jabotabek. This research is will described about strategy empowerment apllied by Asih Fondation. The research method used is qualitative, with the subject of 3 schools in Jabotabek.. Data collection techniques are interviews and observations. The results show that community empowerment conducted by Yayasan Asih Foundation is at the messo level. Early Childhood Education institutions can feel the changes and benefits of coaching provided by Asih Fondation even though the main coaching takes only 2 years. Early Childhood Education under supervisor of it can be developing themselves.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong> - <em>Early Childhood Education, Community Development, Community Empowerment</em><em></em></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-11
Author(s):  
Sue Allingham

It is vital to reflect on our practice and provision and adapt appropriately, but this also requires the government to do the same. Dr Sue Allingham questions why there isn't joined-up thinking about what is important across the sector, including how early childhood education should work.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-349
Author(s):  
Silvia Adriana Rodrigues ◽  
Andreia Guilhen Pinto

The discussion now presented is an excerpt from a collective investigation, in progress, which aims to understand the ways of constituting professionalism and teaching identity from narratives written by teachers of Basic Education and Higher Education. Thus, within the limits of this article, the reflections triggered by the story of an active teacher in Early Childhood Education are brought up. Reading the writings, based on dialogism and otherness, led us to affirm the formative and reflective potential of the narratives not only for those who narrate, but also for those who read them; as well as the extent to which the teaching construction/constitution paths -even being singular -are influenced by plural and collective elements of the socio-cultural context (concrete and subjective) that the subjects are inserted in.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Asep Hidayat

AbstractEducation obtained at an early age greatly affects the development of children both psychomotordevelopment of the brain, and child behavior and achievement when entering adulthood, especially thereach the future of the nation as the next generation must be equipped with education and cultivation ofhumanity values and personality and karaktek. Equity of early childhood education in various regions isnot evenly distributed there are only a few places for rural areas this is caused by the level of knowledgeand insight parents who do not understand and the environment that affect. While for urban areas,especially people, the importance of early education because the level of understanding and intellectual isso high, it is a motivation for the government to commit to early childhood education so important tomeet the needs of the community for education, policies that support this education has been issued basiclaw for the organizer, among others, the Decree of the Minister of Education, the Law on Education andthe regional level by the Decree of the Head of Region. Government dalah this course can facilitate bothbuilding facilities and play facilities for children's games in the room and outdoor games.AbstrakPendidikan yang diperoleh pada usia dini sangat mempengaruhi perkembangan anak baik psikomotorikperkembangan otak, dan perilaku anak serta prestasi anak ketika memasuki usia dewasa terutamajangkauan ke depan bangsa sebagai generasi penerus. Hal ini tentunya harus dibekali dengan pendidikandan penanaman nilai-nilai kemanusian serta kepribadian dan karaktek. Pemerataan pendidikan anak usiadini di berbagai daerah memang belum merata hanya ada beberapa tempat saja untuk daerah pedesaan halini diakibatkan oleh tingkat pengetahuan dan wawasan orangtua yang kurang paham dan lingkungan yangmempengaruhi. Sementara untuk daerah perkotaan khususnya masyarakat merasakan pentingnyapendidikan usia dini karena tingkat pemahaman dan intelektual sudah begitu tinggi. Hal ini merupakanmotivasi bagi pemerintah untuk berkomitmen terhadap pendidikan usia dini begitu penting untukmemenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat akan pendidikan, kebijakan yang mendukung terhadap pendidikan initelah dikeluarkan dasar hukum bagi penyelenggaraanya antara lain keputusan Menteri pendidikan,Undang-undang tentang pendidikan dan tingkat daerah dengan Surat Keputusan Kepala Daerah.Pemerintah dalam hal ini tentunya dapat memfasilitasi baik sarana bangunan maupun sarana bermain bagiana, alat permainan dalam ruangan maupun alat permainan diluar ruangan.Kata kunci: Kebijakan, pendidikan, anak usia dini


Author(s):  
Yu-Yuan Lee

Taiwan has become a global high-tech center. The success of becoming the leading country of high-tech and information technology is accredited to the efforts of the government and of all citizens. In addition, Chinese highly value in academic success, and this has contributed to the success of Taiwan. Parents believe the success of life is rooted in a good education, especially in the early years. This chapter presents an overview of early childhood education in Taiwan and explores how Chinese culture had influenced the value of parents’ expectation in education, as well as how children learn through the use of technology. The last part of the chapter discusses the discrepancy between current early childhood education situations and teachers’ professional development.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fadlillah

The purpose of this study were (1) to know the perception of PGPAUD students toward early childhood education in Ponorogo District. (2) to know the obstacles of early childhood education in Ponorogo Regency based on perception of PG-PAUD students Muhammadiyah University of Ponorogo. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive involving 30 students. Data collection was done by interview technique. The interview was conducted directly to the students of PGPAUD Muhammadiyah University of Ponorogo. The results of this study are 1) PGPAUD student perception on the implementation of early childhood education in Ponorogo regency in general has not run well according to national standards of early childhood education. 2) the obstacles of early childhood education in Ponorogo District are a) there are some teachers of PAUD who have not S1 PGPAUD, the welfare of early childhood teachers are still low, facilities and infrastructure is not adequate, and mininya assistance from the government, both central and local.


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