Book chapter
Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Government Policies Relating to the Early Childhood Sector across Ten Countries
The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care, pp.67-88
Educating the Young Child, 18, Springer International Publishing
2022
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Abstract
The relationship between early childhood education and care (ECEC, birth to 8 years), children’s lifelong learning trajectory and the economy is undisputed. This relationship was particularly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an auto-ethnographical study, this chapter discusses government responses across 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal reveal much about the perceptions of children and their early childhood professionals from a political, social and economic stance. The chapter interrogates how government responses situate children and early childhood professionals within the educational landscape in the countries studied and asks how it shapes early childhood education in particular. It illustrates that Governments overall, in the countries studied, did not recognise ECEC as fundamental to the educational continuum. In looking to the future, we question how early childhood education should develop to prepare children for the times we live in so that children are able to flourish and shape future societies with confidence and purpose. Finally, we ask whether the pandemic could possibly see the dawn of a new era in knowledge and understanding of the centrality of Early Childhood Education and Care.
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- Title
- Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Government Policies Relating to the Early Childhood Sector across Ten Countries
- Creators
- Antje Rothe - Leibniz University HannoverMary Moloney - Mary Immaculate CollegeMargaret Sims - Macquarie UniversityPamela Calder - London South Bank UniversityDoreen BlythWendy Boyd - Southern Cross UniversityLaura Doan - Thompson Rivers UniversityFabio Dovigo - Aarhus UniversitySarah GirlichSofia Georgiadou - Aristotle University of ThessalonikiDomna Kakana - Aristotle University of ThessalonikiConor Mellon - National College of IrelandMaría-José Opazo - University of ChileCarol-Ann O’SíoráinMarian Quinn - Munster Technological UniversityMarg Rogers - University of New EnglandCarolyn Silberfeld - Anglia Ruskin UniversityBárbara Tadeu - Universidade do Porto
- Contributors
- Mary Renck Jalongo (Editor of compilation) - Indiana University of PennsylvaniaJyotsna Pattnaik (Editor of compilation) - California State University
- Publication Details
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care, pp.67-88
- Series
- Educating the Young Child; 18
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Identifiers
- 991013035784602368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter