Interrogating quality in early childhood development: Working towards a South African perspective

South African Journal of Childhood Education

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Interrogating quality in early childhood development: Working towards a South African perspective
 
Creator Excell, Lorayne
 
Subject Early Childhood Development quality; community of practice; action research; early childhood development quality in ECD
Description Within the South African context, early childhood development (ECD) is receiving increasing attention at both government and civil society levels. This has resulted in children accessing ECD services in increasing numbers. But although access may open the doors to learning, it does not ensure a quality early learning experience for children. The pivotal factor is quality. Quality ECD has the potential to drive redress and realise the promise inherent in the South African Constitution. The study draws on the three dimensions of a community of practice, to explore how new dialogic spaces are emerging, spaces that have the potential to generate innovation, reflection and new understandings of what could constitute quality ECD throughout South Africa. Using an action research design, this study will trace how understandings of what constitutes quality ECD in South Africa have already begun to be interrogated by a number of different stakeholders.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor none
Date 2016-07-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — action research
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajce.v6i1.406
 
Source South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 6, No 1 (2016); 9 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674
 
Language eng
 
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https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/406/278 https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/406/279 https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/406/280 https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/406/265
 
Coverage n/a current adults, E CD stakeholders
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Lorayne Excell https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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