Comparative Perspectives on Early Childhood Education Reforms in Australia and China /

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context. The focus is Australia and China with three research projects explored to provide insights into the history and development of early childhood education in each country...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ng, Josephine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Nyland, Berenice (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 32
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The reform agenda in both Australia and China
  • 1. Introduction: Early childhood education policy reforms in Australia and China
  • 2. History, theory and practice: Early childhood in Australia and China
  • 3. A Comparative Study of early childhood policy: Building the early childhood teacher workforce in China and Australia
  • Part II: Comparative curriculum and its role in remodelling early childhood practice and pedagogy
  • 4. The role of formal curriculum documents in early childhood education reform: China and Australia
  • 5. Education and care for children under three in Australia and China- pedagogical perspectives
  • 6. Education and care for children three - six years in Australia and China - pedagogical perspectives
  • Part III: Transnational teacher education: a case study
  • 7. Transnational education and an international partnership: A case study of a Collaborative Articulation Program (CAP)
  • 8. Early childhood teacher education: an international/transnational experience
  • 9. Transnational education: Perspectives from academics
  • 10. Transnational education: Perspectives from students
  • Part IV: Conclusion and implications
  • 11. Conclusion and implications.