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This post is part of a series on contemporary questions in ECE globally. Read about the series as a whole, and find other articles by clicking here. In 2018, NPR published a story covering the growing enrollment and shifting teaching practices of early childhood education in Ghana. Within the article, a teacher’s transformation from aContinue reading “Pencils Before Play: “Academization” and the Era of Accountability in ECE”

This post is part of a series on contemporary questions in ECE globally. Read about the series as a whole and find other articles by clicking here. When discussing best practices of educational and social-support services for children and their families, the chorus of voices rising from policymaking offices to foundations funding nonprofit work andContinue reading “Trauma, Deprivation, and Dignity: How Do We Talk About Early Life Adversity?”

This blog’s last two series examined the current global goals and outcomes related to the rights and lives of young children, and the origins and applications of early childhood education philosophies. Given the complexities and disparities in global early childhood education (ECE) systems, as well as the importance of early life experiences and the rightsContinue reading “Contemporary Questions in ECE: Series Introduction & Homepage”

As the last post explored, the roots of the world’s most commonly established and proliferated educational philosophies, as applied to early childhood education (ECE), predominately trace back to European origins and early implementation efforts. Child-centered pedagogy, also referred to as student-centered or learner-centered instruction, emerged from the theory of “constructivism” in the second half ofContinue reading “From Origin to Impact: A Second Look at Child-Centered Pedagogy in Global ECE”

As early childhood education (ECE) has taken shape in the policies and practices of education systems globally, it’s easy to lose track of the reality that any systematic approach to educating young learners as we know it has really taken shape over the last century. While philosophers from Plato to John Locke theorized how youngContinue reading “An Origin Story: The European Roots of Popular ECE Approaches”