Care and social sustainability in early childhood education : transnational perspectives
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Weldemariam, Kassahun, Chan, Angel, Engdahl, Ingrid, Samuelsson, Ingrid, Katiba, Timothy Chepkewsi, Habte, Tewodros and Muchanga, Roland. (2022). Care and social sustainability in early childhood education : transnational perspectives. Sustainability. 14(9), pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094952
Authors | Weldemariam, Kassahun, Chan, Angel, Engdahl, Ingrid, Samuelsson, Ingrid, Katiba, Timothy Chepkewsi, Habte, Tewodros and Muchanga, Roland |
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Abstract | This article explores how the notion of care is conceptualised and described in early childhood education policies across countries in the majority (Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia) and minority (New Zealand and Sweden) world. A central focus is the relationship and balance between care and education. The authors examined whether there are trends and tendencies to strengthen or weaken the care/education component at the expense of the other. Grounded in local and national knowledge, the authors employed a cross-national collaborative inquiry approach and interrogated the notion of care while extrapolating its implications for the endeavour to design socially sustainable early childhood education. The results revealed that care has remained ingrained within policies in the minority world, while there is a tendency to view it as separate from education in the majority world. Although quantitative goals for early childhood education and care still dominate the majority world, the importance of care and sustainable development are present in all policy documents across the five nations. The authors concluded that strengthening these promising policy endeavours paves the way towards effective educare approaches, which lay the foundation for social sustainability in early childhood education. |
Keywords | care; collaborative inquiry; early childhood education; educare; majority and minority world; policy; social sustainability |
Year | 01 Jan 2022 |
Journal | Sustainability |
Journal citation | 14 (9), pp. 1-15 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
ISSN | 2071-1050 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094952 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/9/4952 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-15 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 20 Apr 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 11 Apr 2022 |
Deposited | 17 Oct 2024 |
Additional information | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland |
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | |
Place of publication | Switzerland |
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