Preschooling in India: Readying Children for a Race?

Autor/inn/en	Majumdar, Manabi; Mukhopadhyay, Rahul; Das, Baidehi
Titel	Preschooling in India: Readying Children for a Race?
Quelle	In: Contemporary Education Dialogue, 18 (2021) 1, S.90-116 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0973-1849
DOI	10.1177/0973184920977557
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Education; Access to Education; Student Diversity; Student Needs; Democratic Values; Neoliberalism; Social Influences; Equal Education; Empowerment; Preschool Teachers; Parent Attitudes; Educational Facilities; School Safety; Public Schools; Private Schools; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Sozialer Einfluss; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschule; Elternverhalten; Bildungsstätte; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Indien
Abstract	Drawing on field-based research in selected government-run and private preschool centres in three selected districts of the Indian state of West Bengal, this article makes four basic arguments. First, there is a need to both defend public provisioning of early childhood education for equity goals and demand its major improvement on quality grounds. Second, an early start to education often turns out to be an unfitting start, as it already mimics a full school with its excessive focus on formal instruction and readiness for competition. Third, to assess early-years learning, therefore, we need to focus on children's cognitive diversity rather than taking a restrictive and test-centric view of cognition. Fourth, we need a democratic framework of thought to collectively address some of these vexed issues and re-examine our current imagination of education, even preschool education, as a race. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01