scholarly journals Study on the Training Needs of Teaching Staff to Provide Quality Early Childhood Education Services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia-Loredana Tudor
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education Strategy ◽  
Policy Measures

Early child development is related to early education, health, nutrition, and psychosocial development; therefore, the holistic concept of early approach combines elements from the area of stimulation of the child, health, nutrition, speech therapy, psychological counselling, physical development support, etc. The need for the development of integrated early education services and their extension to the area of 0-3 years are priorities of the European strategies assumed through a complex of educational policy measures, having as a priority the development of quality early education services for the benefit of all prerequisites for lowering the schooling rate (Strategy for early childhood education, Strategy for parental education, Strategy for reducing early school leaving in Romania, Study on the evaluation of public policies in the field of early childhood education - Saber Early Childhood). In this context of the development of early childhood education, numerous inequalities are identified in the implementation of European and national strategies and programs in the development of early childhood education services, supported by economic, political, social factors, etc. In order to make them compatible at European level, we consider it necessary to support training and development programs for staff providing educational services in early childhood education institutions. The purpose of this study is to acknowledge the opinion of the bodies with attributions in the pre-kindergarten and preschool education in Romania, as well as of the civil society and public opinion, as a prerequisite for identifying school policy measures and developing programs for training the teaching staff so as to be able to provide educational services in early childhood education (representatives responsible for early childhood education in school inspectorates and Houses of the Teaching Staff, teaching staff in preschool educational institutions, representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, representatives of the Social Assistance Directorate, managers of nursery schools, representatives of NGOs and other categories of organizations with experience in the field, parents and interested representatives of the civil society and public opinion). The present study is a qualitative research based on the focus-group method, but also a quantitative research by using the questionnaire-based survey, being carried out on a representative sample of 100 persons (2 focus-group of 25 persons, respectively 50 persons involved in the survey-based questionnaire). The conclusions of this study highlight the need to restructure the system of early childhood education in Romania through interventions at the legislative level and ensure a unitary system of policy and intervention in early childhood education. Also, we believe it is imperative to reorganize the training system of the human resource, by developing complementary competences of the teaching staff, adapted to the training needs of the early childhood population, ensuring a valuable inclusive and integrated intervention.

scholarly journals The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. S305-S335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Anne Brinkman ◽  
Amer Hasan ◽  
Haeil Jung ◽  
Angela Kinnell ◽  
Menno Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Impact

Built to Last: Sustainability of Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amer Hasan ◽  
Haeil Jung ◽  
Angela Kinnell ◽  
Amelia Maika ◽  
Nozomi Nakajima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Childhood Education

scholarly journals Early Childhood Education Services in Manzini Region in Eswatini: Equality and Accessibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-186
Author(s):  
Sithulisiwe Bhebhe ◽  
Ntokozo Vilakati
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Privately Owned

Education services are meant for developing the cognitive capacities of all individuals, though this may vary with individuals given their variable genetic make-up. Early childhood education is one way in which children are developed for the future. This study sought to establish how early childhood education services were valued, made available and accessible to children in a developing country. Open-ended interviews and observations were the instruments used for data collection. Thematic analysis was the data analysis method used in this study. The findings of the study revealed that there were benefits in preschool education and that those learners who missed early childhood education were slow and took long to grasp concepts. The study also found that in the Kingdom of Eswatini not all children of early childhood going age go to school due to limited finances, poverty and sicknesses. The study concluded that privately-owned early childhood development centres are expensive and most parents could not afford the fees. The study recommended that the ministry should consider ECE and start funding preschool education and also provide a documented curriculum to ensure that children who attended preschool get the required skill as expected. The Ministry of Education needs to provide for ECE if they have to achieve their goal of providing equal and quality education to all Eswatini children. The ministry should be prepared to build more preschools, to at least see each primary school having a preschool owned by the government linked to it

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