Early Childhood Educare : Quality Programmes which Care and Educate / Anne B. Smith.

There is currently widespread international concern with delivering high-quality early childhood education and care to young children. Crucial to this effort is an appropriate way of defining and monitoring quality. This article explores the micro-context of quality care, that is, the nature of inte...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Anne B.
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
Subjects:
Genre:
Physical Description:16 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

MARC

LEADER 00000nam a22000002u 4500
001 in00004108565
003 ERIC
005 20220616044109.0
007 he u||024||||
008 960101s1996 xx ||| b ||| | eng d
035 |a ED403053 Microfiche 
040 |a ericd  |c ericd  |d MvI  |d UtOrBLW 
049 0 0 |a EEM# 
099 |a ED403053 Microfiche 
100 1 |a Smith, Anne B.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83173113 
245 1 0 |a Early Childhood Educare :  |b Quality Programmes which Care and Educate /  |c Anne B. Smith. 
260 |a [Place of publication not identified] :  |b Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse,  |c 1996. 
300 |a 16 pages 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a microform  |b h  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a microfiche  |b he  |2 rdacarrier 
500 |a ERIC Note: In: "Childhood Education: International Perspectives," see PS 024 960.  |5 ericd 
520 |a There is currently widespread international concern with delivering high-quality early childhood education and care to young children. Crucial to this effort is an appropriate way of defining and monitoring quality. This article explores the micro-context of quality care, that is, the nature of interactions between children and others (both teachers and peers). The article begins by defining "educare," a term which it adopts as appropriate for what should be occurring in early childhood educational settings. It next moves into a discussion of a sociocultural framework of child development within the educare perspective, arguing against developmentally appropriate practice and in favor of increased attention to the social and cultural context of development and adults' role in it. The article then presents five principles of quality in educare settings, based largely on Vygotsky's ideas on child development (for example, the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and scaffolding) as the internalization of social interactions and processes. The article then provides a more detailed discussion of some of these components of quality, such as letting learning drive development (rather than vice versa), creating intersubjectivity, recognizing the cultural context of educational goals, and understanding children's active role in the developmental process. Contains 34 references. (EV) 
533 |a Microfiche.  |b [Washington D.C.]:  |c ERIC Clearinghouse  |e microfiches : positive. 
500 |a Microform. 
650 0 7 |a Caregiver Child Relationship.  |2 ericd 
650 1 7 |a Child Development.  |2 ericd 
650 0 7 |a Developmentally Appropriate Practices.  |2 ericd 
650 1 7 |a Early Childhood Education.  |2 ericd 
650 1 7 |a Educational Quality.  |2 ericd 
650 0 7 |a Foreign Countries.  |2 ericd 
650 0 7 |a Interaction.  |2 ericd 
650 0 7 |a Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)  |2 ericd 
653 1 |a Educare  |a Vygotsky (Lev S) 
653 0 |a Cultural Values  |a Intersubjectivity  |a Quality Indicators  |a Zone of Proximal Development 
655 7 |a Opinion Papers.  |2 ericd 
655 7 |a Information Analyses.  |2 ericd 
907 |y .b6438438x  |b 211123  |c 081225 
998 |a mc  |b 081225  |c m  |d a   |e -  |f eng  |g xx   |h 0  |i 1 
982 |a no_backstage 
999 f f |i a9d92bf5-d40a-5049-a031-02287567e716  |s a93e9bf3-8859-57ff-b43f-a0255aada3e5  |t 0 
952 f f |p Non-Circulating  |a Michigan State University-Library of Michigan  |b Michigan State University  |c MSU Microforms  |d MSU Microforms, 2 West  |t 0  |e ED403053 Microfiche  |h Other scheme  |i Microform (Microfilm/Microfiche)  |n 1