Education, Language and Professionalism: Issues in the Professional Development of Early Years Practitioners in Germany

Autor/in	Fried, Lilian
Titel	Education, Language and Professionalism: Issues in the Professional Development of Early Years Practitioners in Germany
Quelle	In: Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 29 (2009) 1, S.33-44 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-5146
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Professional Training; Criticism; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Professional Development; Educational Improvement; Preservice Teacher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Language Acquisition; Questionnaires; Models; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Berufliche Fachbildung; Berufliche Fortbildung; Kritik; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerfortbildung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Fragebogen; Analogiemodell; Deutschland
Abstract	In the Federal Republic of Germany, many efforts are currently under way to improve the quality of early childhood education. One starting point is the quality of the professional training of early childhood practitioners. However, discussions mainly refer to input factors, such as the training curricula or the formal level of training. Output factors, such as the professional knowledge base of future early childhood practitioners, tend to be neglected. Here the sciences have a role to play, by developing competence models for the critical analysis, detailed description and purposeful improvement of everyday practice in early childhood institutions. As an example of this direction, this paper focuses on the knowledge base of the language support competence (LSC) of German early childhood practitioners with possible implications for both the continuing professional development of teachers and pre-service and in-service training in Germany. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10