Bicultural Development within an Early Childhood Teacher Education Programme

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education

Does Early Childhood Teacher Education Affect Students' Cognitive Orientations? The Effect of Different Education Tracks in Teacher Education on Prospective Early Childhood Teachers' Cognitive Orientations in Germany

Early childhood teachers may differ regarding the knowledge base they use when making professional decisions. In this study two orientations are distinguished: the orientation towards scientific knowledge vs. the orientation towards intuition and subjective experience. As different tracks in early childhood teacher education qualify for professional practice, and as education of early childhood...

An Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care and Integration within Education: The Brazilian Experience

This paper aims at analyzing the premises that shape a model for an integrated approach to early childhood education and care and those that shape the integration of ECEC services within Education, considered here as two distinct movements. In previous study (Haddad, 2002), I defended the idea that wide world events such as the Cold War, the Western cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s an...

Teacher Education and Development in South Africa: a Research and Development Programme

Regular Versus Special Streams within Teacher Education

Teacher educators need to have a clear picture of student teachers’ attitudes towards diversity, disability, learning and teaching, because this knowledge can be helpful in designing teacher education programmes which can prepare future teachers better for work in inclusive settings. Therefore, the study presented in this paper was designed to explore the attitudes of student teachers enrolled ...