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Title: | Early Childhood Care and Development in Bhutan: Mind the Gap(s) | Contributor(s): | Wangmo, Tshering (author); Brooks, Margaret (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-10-1649-3_13 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21471 | Abstract: | Drawing upon recent research undertaken in early childhood in Bhutan, this chapter provides a discursive account of current practices. This more personal account will connect the reader with the everyday realities of those involved; the child, the family, the community, and the school. It will make explicit some key theoretical frameworks that underpin good early childhood practices and highlight worrying discontinuities between theory and practice, as well as between theory and some of the guiding standards documents and curriculum for early childhood care and development (ECCD) in Bhutan. This chapter will take a strong contemporary socio-cultural approach to the broader nature of early childhood and will consider the important, but mostly overlooked, relationships between home and the education system in the country. It will demonstrate how the philosophy of Educating for Gross National Happiness (EGNH) could relate to, and support, the contemporary early childhood philosophy, programming, and practices to create a strong ECCD foundation in Bhutan. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Education in Bhutan: Culture, Schooling, and Gross National Happiness, p. 199-213 | Publisher: | Springer | Place of Publication: | Singapore | ISBN: | 9789811016479 9789811016493 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori) 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development 390302 Early childhood education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930299 Teaching and Instruction not elsewhere classified 930102 Learner and Learning Processes 930399 Curriculum not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160101 Early childhood education 160399 Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/236400156 | Series Name: | Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects | Series Number : | 36 | Editor: | Editor(s): Matthew J Schuelka and Tom W Maxwell |
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