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Ackah-Jnr, Francis R.; Appiah, John; Addo-Kissiedu, Kwaku; Kwao, Alex – Online Submission, 2022
Early childhood education (ECE) in Ghana has grown from a traditional approach to a more formalised and modernised system of care and education services for young children. As a valued practice, ECE reflects a distributive, regulatory or redistributive policy. The paper analyses Ghana's ECE policy implementation using McDonnell and Elmore's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Aslanian, Teresa K. – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
There is growing concern within the field of education regarding how the implementation of national frameworks based on the European Qualifications Framework displaces tacit and less traditionally formalized knowledge from policy. This issue is particularly salient concerning national frameworks that regulate early childhood teacher education, in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Child Care
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du Plessis, Hendrik Abraham; Steenkamp, Danielle – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
This research focused on the structure for teaching as a component of the education systems of South Africa and India. India and South Africa form part of the BRICS grouping, and BRICS have set out certain development goals about quality education. This qualitative interpretive study utilised relevant documents from India and South Africa that…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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Becerra-Lubies, Rukmini; Mayo, Simona; Fones, Aliza – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Public education policies governing language revitalization and the teaching of indigenous languages have been in place for more than 20 years in Chile. In this journey, there has been considerable progress nationwide in the education of a generation of children in an intercultural socio-educational environment. However, there still exist…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy, Preschool Education
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Bialik, Gadi; Shefi, Noa – Global Education Review, 2017
Since the 1970s, Israel's educational policy has been undergoing a change generated by the neo-liberal agenda. In this light, it is not surprising that since the 1990s, Israel's education system has adopted the main characteristics of the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM). In light of this, the current research will focus on a newly born…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries
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DellaMattera, Julie – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2010
Current preschool learning guidelines, created in response to NCLB requirements, focus on three areas of human development in an effort to ensure that preschoolers are ready for kindergarten. This study examined four New England states' preschool learning guidelines, looking at how each detailed its support for preschoolers' development. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Children, Guidelines, Cognitive Development