Countries such as Brazil and Chile do have populations that are wealthy and can afford the best educations for their children that are available. They also have terrible slums, particularly Brazil where people live in garbage dumps and barrios where conditions are very dismal. The policy makers of countries like this are looking to countries like ours for what is working to decrease the inequities in the early childhood education. Some programs in Chile have been in place for a few years so they are starting to do longitudinal studies. It will be interesting to follow these countries and see how they address the issues of early childhood education programs in the coming years.
What they all agree on is early childhood education is necessary for the continued improving of their society. To attain that they need more educated instructors following similar guidelines, spread across the country, sensitive to cultural differences and parents working with teachers to make their children’s lives fuller and richer.
References:
Langman, J., July 2010
Latin America Focuses on Early Learning
Global Post
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/education/100716/early-childhood-education
Center on the Developing Child
Global Children’s Initiative
Harvard University
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/global_initiative/ubc/
Policy Review Report, 2007
Early Childhood Care and Education in Brazil
http://www.unesdoc.unesco.org/images /0015/001512/15127le.pdf
An we want to complain. I livein the US and could only imagine what children and adults exposed to. I tell my children all the time how blessed they are to have the simple things in life. Like a bed to sleep in. Our children take so much for granted.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Leslie that are children do take a lot for granted. Our children are blessed to have the things that they do. Children in other countries would give to have the simple necessities that our children do not think twice about. I cannot even imagine what it would be like to be a parent in one of these countries who are suffering. I try not to take the things I have for granted but it is when you read/see things about other countries that you realize maybe you do take the simple necessities in life for granted and just expect that you will always have them available to you.
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