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