Insights I Have Gained About Early Childhood Systems
Around The Globe.
Over the past decade, the world’s policymakers have
increased their attention to early childhood health and development, which
opens new prospects for advancing a comprehensive early childhood agenda. In
all Western European countries there is a growing awareness that they live in a
society marked by diversity where many people and groups live together and have
different standards and values, as well as ideas about raising their children. Diversity
in families, standards and values within European society influences
educational systems as well as early childhood education and services. Every
day early childhood trainers and educators are confronted with new questions
and challenge. How to deal with these different standards and values? How to
communicate with the diversity of parents? What do we want for the children?
Who decides how to raise the children in the early childhood education? A group
of trainers and researchers, associated in the European network DECET(Diversity
in Early Childhood Education and Training), have been working on these questions
for two years, sharing their knowledge, resources and experiences. The guide is
the result of their combined expertise and insights. In this guide, DECET makes
the case that the current context of our society calls for in this guide, DECET
makes the case that the current context of our society calls for inclusion and
respect for diversity and equity for all children and families. As a result, children
should experience a socialization process in which all identities are preserved
and in which diversity is integrated. Such an educational approach in the early
years will be a preventative measure to help combat social exclusion. Including
diversity and equity issues requires changes in the role of the early childhood
educator and as a consequence, changes in training approaches and courses.
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