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This book will be the first one of its kind to focus on early childhood curriculum in Chinese societies - from social context and culture to reforms and practices, and finally to the lessons that researchers, policymakers and practitioners could learn, as well as future directions.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART 1 EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM POLICIES IN CHINESE SOCIETIESChapter 1 Early Childhood Curriculum in the Era of Globalisation: An Overview
Chapter 2 Early Childhood Curriculum Reforms in Chinese Societies
Chapter 3 Comparing Early Childhood Curriculum Policies in Chinese Societies
PART 2 EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM PRACTICES IN CHINESE SOCIETIESChapter 4 Localisation of Overseas Curricula in Chinese Kindergartens
Chapter 5 School-Based Curriculum Development in Chinese Kindergartens
Chapter 6 Chinese Approaches to Implementing Early Childhood Curriculum
PART 3 PROSPECTS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM IN CHINESE SOCIETIESChapter 7 Understanding the Sociocultural Mechanism of Early Childhood Curriculum in Chinese Societies
Chapter 8 Revisiting Early Childhood Curriculum in Chinese Societies: Lessons, Challenges, and Trends
Chapter 9 Early Childhood Curriculum as a Cultural Practice: Towards a New Start
Index
About the author
Weipeng Yang, PhD, is a Lecturer in the S R Nathan School of Human Development at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. His research focuses on exploring the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of early childhood curriculum innovations. He has published in
Journal of Curriculum Studies,
Early Education and Development, Computers and Education and other journals. He is currently the editorial board member of
Early Education and Development.
Hui Li, PhD, is the Professor in Early Childhood at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research interests lie in developmental psycholinguistics, early Chinese literacy, early childhood curriculum and pedagogy, and educational policy. He has published more than 180 academic works including books, book chapters, and journal and conference papers. His early childhood curricula and pedagogies, Story Approach to Integrated Learning (SAIL) and Story-based Project Approach (SPA), are widely used in Chinese societies. Since 2011, he established the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (Beijing & Singapore) and Early Child Cantonese Corpus (Hong Kong). He is the co-editor of the
Journal of Research in Childhood Education, the associate editor of
Early Education and Development, and the editorial board member of three international research journals in the field of early child development and education.
Summary
This book will be the first one of its kind to focus on early childhood curriculum in Chinese societies – from social context and culture to reforms and practices, and finally to the lessons that researchers, policymakers and practitioners could learn, as well as future directions.
