Lecture 2 History of ECCE Education in Multicultural Perspectives

Bronfenbrenner Ecological Theory

Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Culture and Diversity

Culture

Relevance

Cross-Cultural Comparisons

individualism vs. collectivism

global interdependence

ethnocentric

SES

Socioeconomic variations

Poverty

Ethnicity

Ethnicity

Immigration

Ethnicity & Minority Groups

Timeline of Influential Western ECCE (BC500 - AD2000)

US past leading into its present

6 Views of Children through the Ages

Miniature Adults

Sinful Children

Blank Tablet

Growing Plants

Property of Parents

Investment in the Future

Progressive Education (John Dewey)

NAEYC

DAP

ECE reflecting national traits/tendencies

Individualism

Independence

Pluralism

Pragmatism

4 Factors/Historical Forces

Competing images of the young child

Economics of families with particular reference to mother's aspiration

Rising governmental interest in ECE

Democratization of ECE organizations nationwide

4 Forces impacting

Early educators

Child advocates

Federal, state & local governments

young children & families

3 frames for viewing ECCE

Liberal-humanistic

Skilling

Cultural & linguistic

Recent empirical research ties with child development

US importing from aboard

New public schools

Progressive Froebel kindergarten

1st kindergarten uses English

US public kindergartens

US Curricular Modes and Programs

Bank street/Project approach (John Dewey)

HighScope (David Weikart)

Headstart: Creative Curriculum & Tools of the Mind

From 1960 - Present

Environmentalism

McMillans

Civil Rights Act

Economic Opportunity Act

Elementary Secondary Education Act

No Child Left Behind Act

new 1st grades