Practice of Early Childhood Development Curriculum Preparation

Integrated and Early Childhood Education: Preparation for Social Development

Participants in the Second Eastern Hemisphgre Seminar! (held at Salisbury, Zimbabwe in 1981) discussed topics rented to the theme of integrated And early childhood education. The seminar vias organized into plenary and small group discussions centered on four sub-topics of the broad theme: (1) Early Childhood Education: The Community Dimension; (2) Integrated Education: Key to Social Developmen...

NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation

African early childhood development curriculum and pedagogy for Turkana nomadic pastoralist communities of Kenya.

Western conceptions of child development and the models of early education they engender predominantly shape services for young children in the first eight years of life all over Africa. This chapter brings a reconceptualist perspective to the critique of Kenya's continuing failure to ground early childhood programs and services in local cultural conceptions, developmental values, childrearing ...

Review of Structural Social Determinants of Health in Early Childhood Development

Development is a dynamic and continuous phenomenon  that is under the influence of various factors forming a complicated multidimensional system together. Any impairment in these factors can lead to impaired development in children, which is one of the most common problems in children. Therefore, this study provides a brief overview of these factors and the way they affect early childhood ...

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...