Multiple Perspectives on Starting Right.

Autor/in	Katz, Lilian G.
Titel	Multiple Perspectives on Starting Right.
Quelle	(1995), (45 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Stellungnahme; Day Care; Early Childhood Education; Educational Attitudes; Educational Improvement; Educational Policy; Educational Quality; Educational Research; Global Approach; Mixed Age Grouping; Parent Role; Parent School Relationship; Program Evaluation; Student Attitudes; Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tagespflege; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Globales Denken; Jahrgangsübergreifende Gruppe; Parental role; Elternrolle; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	This paper addresses multiple perspectives on the quality of early childhood care and education, including lessons learned from programs in various countries, the implications of these perspectives, and recommendations for the improvement of early childhood provision. It also examines the ideas expressed in the 1994 "Start Right" report on early childhood provision issued by the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in London, England. The paper reviews five perspectives on quality: (1) top-down, which focuses on caregiver-child ratios, staff qualifications, and physical environment; (2) bottom-up, which considers the views of the children in the program; (3) inside, or staff views; (4) outside-in, which focuses on parent attitudes; and (5) outside, or the community and society at-large. The paper recommends the strengthening of early childhood teacher education programs, the use of mixed-age grouping in early childhood programs, and the use of parent cooperative models of early childhood provision, by which all parents would have direct involvement in their young children's care and education. (Contains 33 references.) (MDM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01