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Shades of Globalization in Three Early Childhood Settings - Views from India, South Africa, and Canada (Hardcover)
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Shades of Globalization in Three Early Childhood Settings - Views from India, South Africa, and Canada (Hardcover)
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Shades of Globalization casts an ethnographic eye on the interplay
between local and global influences on the organization and
activities within three early childhood settings, each of which is
located in a context of rapid social change. Stemming from a
four-year study of early childhood thought and practice, each of
the eight chapters touches on a different aspect of the three case
study preschools, one each in India, South Africa, and an
aboriginal community in Canada. The authors take a critical
perspective on taken-for-granted assumptions about what constitutes
the most appropriate preschool experience for children, querying
for example, the meaning of school readiness within local
communities. This book will appeal to those who have an interest in
the diversity of children's lives and preschool experiences
throughout the world - education and social policy makers, teacher
educators, teachers, pre-service student teachers, day-care
workers, parents, community leaders, governmental and
non-governmental organizations and consultants, early childhood
program planners and evaluators, community development workers,
university lecturers, and developmental psychologists. Ailie
Cleghorn is Professor of Education at Concordia University in
Montreal. She teaches in the Educational Studies Masters Program
and conducts research that is grounded in her field of comparative
sociology of education. Earlier publications include Issues in
African Education: Sociological Perspectives, with Ali A. Abdi
(Palgrave-MacMillan) and Missing the Meaning: The Development and
Use of Print and Non-Print Text Materials in Diverse School
Settings, with Alan Peacock (Palgrave-MacMillan). Larry Prochner is
Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of
Alberta. His research centres on the historical and comparative
study of education. Recent publications include The History of
Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
(University of British Columbia Press), and Early Childhood Care
and Education: Theory and Practice, with Prerana mohite (Concept
Publishers). The Afterword is written by Professor Jessica Ball,
School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, British
Columbia. Professor Ball is the Principal Investigator on projects
in the Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships
program at the University of Victoria. She is also Coordinator of
First Nations Partnership Programs - a two-year diploma program in
early childhood education and youth care, delivered through
partnerships with Indigenous communities and post-secondary
institutions in western Canada. She has worked extensively to
protect cultural diversity and support development of
community-based services to promote optimal child health and
development.
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