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Enhancing Early Childhood Schooling of South Asian Children in Hong Kong: Beliefs and Perceptions of Kindergarten Teachers and Principals
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Yuen, Celeste Y. M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Enhancing quality early childhood education and enabling access for ethnic minority South Asian (SA) children in kindergartens have increasingly been a social concern in Hong Kong. This empirical study examines the beliefs and perceptions of kindergarten teachers and principals towards educating SA children in their own educational settings. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
The Greek-Cypriot Early Childhood Educational Reform: Introducing Play as a Participatory Learning Process and as Children's Right
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Loizou, Eleni; Avgitidou, Sofia – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper provides a brief description of the Greek-Cypriot early childhood education system and focuses on the current education reform. We focus on one of the main changes of the reform, a new status for play within the daily educational programme. The goal of this paper is two-fold; first to portray play in the former and current proposed…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Sociocultural Patterns, Play