East Timor: Building on the Early Years

Autor/in	Nyland, Berenice
Titel	East Timor: Building on the Early Years
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 29 (2004) 4, S.50-57 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0312-5033
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; School Buildings; Educational History; Poverty; Social Influences; Access to Education; Language of Instruction; Role of Education; Portuguese; Public Policy; Timor-Leste + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ausland; School building; Schulgebäude; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Armut; Sozialer Einfluss; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Bildungsauftrag; Portugiesischunterricht; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	When the East Timorese voted for Independence in 1999 they at least expected to have infrastructure, such as school buildings, available as they started the task of building a new nation. The post-Independence destruction also meant that unexpected priority decisions about what should be built, or rebuilt, first had to be made. In a country suffering from low literacy rates, high unemployment, trauma, poverty and food shortages, the question of an education system remains very complex. This paper explores the potential of early childhood education in the new nation of East Timor. The discussion of the early years will be framed by some of the debates that have occupied the education conversation in the early days of Independence. The question of language has been strongly debated (Lutz, 1991; Burns, 1999; Kehi, 1999; Hull, 2000) and will be a focus of this discussion. Three questions are examined in the paper: one, the extremely complex issues surrounding choices about the language(s) of education in a country where literacy levels are low and colonial rulers have used language as an overt expression of power; two, the importance of the early years; and three, the question of the role of early education in nation building. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Early Childhood Australia. P.O. Box 7105, Watson, ACT 2602, Australia. Tel: +61-2-6242-1800; Fax: +61-2-6242-1818; e-mail: publishing@earlychildhood.org.au; Web site: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10