Early Childhood Education in Swaziland and Brunei Darussalam: Goals, Achievements and Challenges

Autor/in	Mundia, Lawrence
Titel	Early Childhood Education in Swaziland and Brunei Darussalam: Goals, Achievements and Challenges
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 177 (2007) 2, S.151-158 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Identification; Educational Needs; Children; Child Care; Early Childhood Education; Special Education; Educational Quality; Teacher Education; Class Size; Educational Finance; Brunei; Swaziland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Klassengröße; Bildungsfonds
Abstract	Early childhood care and education is an important stage in preparing children for primary schooling. Research indicates that participation in this phase has beneficial effects on later schooling particularly at the primary school level. Early diagnosis of special educational needs and intervention are essential in this stage if a child is to effectively function at primary school level and other later cycles. Unfortunately the sector is beset with a number of problems such as poor quality, low access, inadequate training of teachers, assessment problems, high pupil/teacher ratios, insufficient funding and lack of strong commitment from the public. The system needs to be more inclusive and made part of the overall education-for-all objectives in each country to benefit more children. The study discusses these advantages and disadvantages with respect to Swaziland and Brunei Darussalam. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10