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Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Qualitative Study of Government Policies Relating to the Early Childhood Sector Across Ten Countries. / Rothe, Antje; Moloney, Mary; Sims, Margaret et al.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives, Challenges, and Responses. Springer, 2022. s. 67-88 (Educating the Young Child, Bind 18).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
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T1 - Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - A Qualitative Study of Government Policies Relating to the Early Childhood Sector Across Ten Countries
AU - Rothe, Antje
AU - Moloney, Mary
AU - Sims, Margaret
AU - Calder, Pamela
AU - Blyth, Doreen
AU - Boyd, Wendy
AU - Doan, Laura
AU - Dovigo, Fabio
AU - Girlich, Sarah
AU - Georgiadou, Sofia
AU - Kakana, Domna
AU - Mellon, Conor
AU - Opazo, María José
AU - O’Síoráin, Carol Ann
AU - Quinn, Marian
AU - Rogers, Marg
AU - Silberfeld, Carolyn
AU - Tadeu, Bárbara
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - The relationship between early childhood education and care (ECEC, birth to 8 years), children’s lifelong learning trajectory and the economy is undisputed. This relationship was particularly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an auto-ethnographical study, this chapter discusses government responses across 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal reveal much about the perceptions of children and their early childhood professionals from a political, social and economic stance. The chapter interrogates how government responses situate children and early childhood professionals within the educational landscape in the countries studied and asks how it shapes early childhood education in particular. It illustrates that Governments overall, in the countries studied, did not recognise ECEC as fundamental to the educational continuum. In looking to the future, we question how early childhood education should develop to prepare children for the times we live in so that children are able to flourish and shape future societies with confidence and purpose. Finally, we ask whether the pandemic could possibly see the dawn of a new era in knowledge and understanding of the centrality of Early Childhood Education and Care.
AB - The relationship between early childhood education and care (ECEC, birth to 8 years), children’s lifelong learning trajectory and the economy is undisputed. This relationship was particularly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an auto-ethnographical study, this chapter discusses government responses across 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal reveal much about the perceptions of children and their early childhood professionals from a political, social and economic stance. The chapter interrogates how government responses situate children and early childhood professionals within the educational landscape in the countries studied and asks how it shapes early childhood education in particular. It illustrates that Governments overall, in the countries studied, did not recognise ECEC as fundamental to the educational continuum. In looking to the future, we question how early childhood education should develop to prepare children for the times we live in so that children are able to flourish and shape future societies with confidence and purpose. Finally, we ask whether the pandemic could possibly see the dawn of a new era in knowledge and understanding of the centrality of Early Childhood Education and Care.
KW - Auto-ethnography
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - Early childhood education and care
KW - Professionalism and professionalisation
KW - Qualitative study
KW - Samfund/samtid
KW - Early childhood
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-96977-6_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-96977-6_4
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85134007562
SN - 978-3-030-96976-9
T3 - Educating the Young Child
SP - 67
EP - 88
BT - The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care
PB - Springer
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