- Title
- Diversity and difference in young children's academic experience: An issue for globalization
- Creator
- Guo, Karen
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70965
- Identifier
- vital:6673
- Identifier
- ISSN:2220-1599
- Abstract
- Early childhood education, in its deepest sense, concerns the preparation of young children for their future lives. In this paper, I will argue that issues of preparing young children for the future should be addressed in terms of living in the context of increasing globalization. To make this argument, the paper looks across academic experiences of young children in some nations around the world. The idea is to identify congruence and differences in academic experiences of young children, set them in the context of globalization, and discuss the significance of shifting early childhood education from a local orientation to a more-encompassing view of global practice. Only moving deeply into the concept of globalization, we can bring out into the open both our ways and theirs of teaching and learning, thereby realistically, contextually and appropriately preparing young children for their common living in this globe.
- Relation
- Global Education Review Vol. 1, no. 3 (2013), p. 57-69
- Rights
- Copyright Longbridge Publishing
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Globalization; Early Childhood Education; Diversity; Academic Learning
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