Naslov
Quality of early education: multiple perspectives

Autori
Babić, Nada ; Romstein, Ksenija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Reflections on the quality of school work / Zaclona, Z - Nowy Sącz : Państwowa Wyższa Szkola Zawodowa, 2009, 49-60

ISBN
978-83-60822-76-0

Skup
The quality of education

Mjesto i datum
Nowy Sącz, Poljska, 27.04.2009. - 28.04.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Plenarno

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
quality ; learning and teaching ; early and preschool education ; interaction ; values ; perspective of children and adults

Sažetak
The quality of early and preschool education is a matter of constant interest for both professional and scientific discussions, and educational politics. There are multiple perspectives on what quality actually is and how it can be evaluated. Today, when success and profitability have an important place in the global as well as in national policies, the issues concerning the quality of early and preschool institutional education become more and more important. A pragmatical, managerial approach to education is reflected in the definition of quality. Quality expressed by terms such as efficiency and profitability (social and economical) presupposes standardization (norms), unification and measurability. Quality as an attribute is universal and can be perceived by objective measuring. This approach is a challenge for considering quality as a socio-cultural value when it comes to priorities and reality indicators. In early education priorities refer to the expected and/or desired changes on a social and individual level of the child’s behaviour and development accompanied by simultaneous discovery of meanings of the situational contexts in which both children and adults live. This paper discusses early education quality from the perspective of socio-cultural development theory. The focus is on the process, that is, interaction as one aspect of quality. The research conducted about the interaction of adults (parents and preschool teachers) and children in the contexts of playing, learning and teaching points to the value of analyzing quality from the perspective of both children and adults.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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