Report of the NRC Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics: Evidence of effective policies and practices for math education

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Clements ◽  
Julie Sarama ◽  
Sue Bredekamp ◽  
Douglas Clements ◽  
Herbert P. Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Math Education ◽  
Early Childhood Mathematics ◽  
Policies And Practices

scholarly journals Business managers in children’s playground : Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912198936
Author(s):  
Olivera Kamenarac
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Early Childhood Education Policies ◽  
Policies And Practices

The impacts of neo-liberal education reforms on the early childhood education sector have been a focal point of scholarly critiques in New Zealand. Interestingly, only a few studies have addressed how teacher professional identities and professionalism have changed in response to the neo-liberal context of New Zealand early childhood education. It has been, however, recognised that understanding the complexity of teacher professional identities within the rapidly transforming landscape of early childhood education is a key consideration in implementing and sustaining a change agenda in education policies and practices. In this article, the author draws on data from her research study about how teachers’ professional identities have been reconstructed in response to the shifting discourses in New Zealand early childhood education policies and practices. Specifically, the author explores the construction of teachers as business managers, which has emerged through an interplay of discourses of marketisation and privatisation driving some of the country’s early childhood education policies and practices. It is argued that the construction of teachers as business managers has altered core professional ethical values underpinning the teaching profession, professionalism and the purpose of early childhood education in New Zealand, which were traditionally embedded in discourses of collective democracy, equity and social justice.

Storytelling sagas: an effective medium for teaching early childhood mathematics

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Casey ◽  
Joanne E. Kersh ◽  
Jessica Mercer Young
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Effective Medium ◽  
Early Childhood Mathematics
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