Multicultural Curriculum in Rural Early Childhood Programs

Early Childhood Education Programs

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Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Multicultural Education in Early Childhood: Issues and Challenges

The writer is proposing that multicultural education be made an important component in early childhood education. The current trend in demography in most countries is one of increasing heterogeneity which gives rise to racial tensions and cultural conflicts. People need to come to terms with the fact that we need to co-exist in harmony, and this can only happen if there is genuine respect and a...

UNESCO Policy Brief on Early Childhood Curriculum in Early Childhood Education and Care

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) poses a dilemma for curriculum designers. On the one hand, there is the need to guide the personnel in early childhood centres, especially when they have low certification and little training. A curriculum helps to ensure that staff cover important learning areas, adopt a common pedagogical approach and reach for a certain level of quality across age gr...

Content Analysis of the National Curriculum of Iran due to Multicultural Curriculum Components

Existing of racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in different countries, has forced their educational system committed to decent response to the phenomenon of diversity of their communities in ways worthy of attention in national educational curriculum. Multicultural education is a kind of approach that responds to cultural diversity in a society and its educational system. T...