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

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.

Implementation of Early Childhood Education Policy in The Pandemic of COVID-19 In Indonesia

This study aims to describe the application of early childhood education policies in the middle of COVID-19. This research method is a literature study, this study conducted a review of the literature-literature re-lating to the execution of early childhood instruction approach amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The results of this study found early childhood education policy during the COVID-19 pandemic was not implemented properly, the unequal internet access so parents cannot access learning and economic prob-lems from parents so that they are unable to present tools for support online learning. the lack of parental knowledge of early childhood education. Learning at home must be in accordance with the interests and conditions of children not implemented because children tend to be left playing without supervision.