Increasing Choice or Inequality? Pathways through Early Education in Andhra Pradesh, India. Working Papers in Early Childhood Development, No. 58. Studies in Early Childhood Transitions

Autor/inn/en	Streuli, Natalia; Vennam, Uma; Woodhead, Martin
Institution	Bernard Van Leer Foundation (Netherlands)
Titel	Increasing Choice or Inequality? Pathways through Early Education in Andhra Pradesh, India. Working Papers in Early Childhood Development, No. 58. Studies in Early Childhood Transitions
Quelle	(2011), (80 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1383-7907
ISBN	978-9-0619-5123-0
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Private Sector; Poverty; Preschool Education; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Longitudinal Studies; Trend Analysis; Surveys; Public Schools; Private Schools; School Choice; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language of Instruction; Government Role; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Privater Sektor; Armut; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Trendanalyse; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Indien
Abstract	This working paper is part of the Studies in Early Transitions series emerging from "Young Lives", a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. It explores recent trends for children growing up in Andhra Pradesh, one of India's most populous states, based on Young Lives survey data collected for a sample of 1950 young children born in 2001 plus in-depth qualitative research. The paper discusses how poverty levels and location are strongly predictive of whether children attend government or private pre-school. It highlights policy challenges stemming from weak governance of the pre-school sector, notably how the relatively-unregulated and rapidly-growing private sector offers to initiate children into formal learning, in English, from a much earlier age than normally considered to be developmentally appropriate. And it identifies how government provision could be improved and strengthened. "Young Lives" communities description is appended. (Contains 4 tables, 2 figures and 8 footnotes.) [An earlier version of this paper was published as Working Paper 52 in "Young Lives'" own Working Paper series.] (As Provided).
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