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- Compares early childhood educational policies and procedures in China, India, and the United States
- Features insight gathered from original interview and survey data on parents' perceptions of various factors' influence on education, including globalization
- Makes recommendations for the reallocation of resources to better ensure high quality early education, while emphasizing the importance of child-friendly classroom environments and prioritizing play within them
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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State Investments in Childhood Development: What Policymakers Need to Know?
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Parental and Family Involvement and Investments in Young Children: Parents’ Perspectives
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book is a comparative study of how early childhood educational policies and initiatives in three countries—China, India, and the United States—have been utilized as both direct and indirect strategies for responding to fierce global economic competition. Human capital theory and cultural ecology theory serve as the conceptual framework for discussing how this has played out in each of the three countries. In addition, this book presents a discussion and analysis of how the beliefs, parents’ perspectives, and practices with regard to child-rearing and the education of young children have both changed and remained the same in response to forces of globalization.
Authors and Affiliations
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College of Education, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, USA
Guangyu Tan
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School of Education, The City College of New York, New York, USA
Amita Gupta, Gay Wilgus
About the authors
Guangyu Tan is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. Her research interests are comparative studies in P-16 education.
Amita Gupta is Professor of Early Childhood Education and former Department Chair in the School of Education at the City College of New York, CUNY, USA. She has been in the field of early childhood education for more than thirty years with extensive cross-cultural experience.
Gay Wilgus is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Early Childhood Education at the City College of New York, CUNY, USA. Her recent research is focused on motherhood studies and carework.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Investment in Early Childhood Education in a Globalized World
Book Subtitle: Policies, Practices, and Parental Philosophies in China, India, and the United States
Authors: Guangyu Tan, Amita Gupta, Gay Wilgus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60041-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60040-0Published: 26 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60041-7Published: 25 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education