Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) |
Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Tables -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Globalization, Human Capital Development, and Cultural Ecology -- Globalization -- Where China, India, and the United States Stand on a Global Stage: An Overview -- Economic Growth of Each Country: Overall Rank -- Education Achievement in a Global Perspective -- Human Capital Investments -- Academic Achievement, Economic Growth, and Human Capital Investment in a Globalized World -- Culture Ecology Theory -- Conclusion -- References |
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Part II State Investments in Childhood Development: What Policymakers Need to Know? -- 2 Childhood Development and Education in China: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Improving Future Competitiveness -- History of the Development of Early Childhood Care and Education in China (1949-Post 2010) -- Stage One: Golden Era of ECCE (1949-1957) -- Stage Two: Dark Age (1958-1977) -- Stage Three: Renaissance (1978-1993) -- Stage Four: Privatization of ECCE (1994-2010) -- Stage Five: The Coming Spring of ECCE in China (Post 2010) -- Current Challenges: 3As and 2Ss -- Accessibility -- Affordability |
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Accountability -- The Quality of Kindergartens -- ECCE Teacher Development and Education -- Curriculum and Pedagogy in ECCE -- Sustainability in ECCE Policies and Practice -- Social Justice in ECCE Policy and Practice -- Migrant Children and Left-Behind Children -- Ethnic Minority Children -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Early Childhood Education in India: Promises, Policies, and Pitfalls -- The Role of Caste, Gender, Religion, and Language on Education -- Segregation Based on the Caste System -- Segregation Based on Gender -- Segregation Based on Religious Beliefs |
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Segregation Based on Linguistic Groups -- Globalization's Impact on Socioeconomic Changes in Indian Society -- Urban Centers and Global Cities in India -- Recent Changes in India's Education Sector -- Diverse Early Childhood Settings in India -- Policy Reforms Impacting Early Childhood Education in India -- National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF 2005) -- NCERT National Focus Group Position Paper on Early Childhood Education (2006) -- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (2002) -- Right to Education Act (2009) -- National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (2009) -- National Policy on ECCE (2013) |
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The Goal to Provide Basic Education to All Children in India -- Dire Need for Capacity Building and Investing in Teacher Education -- Recent Emphasis on Capacity Building -- Protecting the Narrative of ECCE -- Where Are We Now with Pre-primary and Primary Education in India? -- Persisting Challenges Regarding Access and Quality -- Neoliberal Incursions on Education -- References -- 4 From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind to Race to the Top: The US Response to Global Competition -- Introduction -- The Roots of 20th Educational Reform in the United States: A Nation at Risk |
Summary |
This book is a comparative study of how early childhood educational policies and initiatives in three countries-China, India, and the United States-have been utilized as both direct and indirect strategies for responding to fierce global economic competition. Human capital theory and cultural ecology theory serve as the conceptual framework for discussing how this has played out in each of the three countries. In addition, this book presents a discussion and analysis of how the beliefs, parents' perspectives, and practices with regard to childrearing and the education of young children have both changed and remained the same in response to forces of globalization |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Critiques of a Nation at Risk |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2019) |
Subject |
Early childhood education.
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Education.
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early childhood education.
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Early childhood education
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Education
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gupta, Amita, 1959- author.
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Wilgus, Gay, author
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ISBN |
1137600411 |
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9781137600417 |
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