Formalise the informal, or informalise the formal : towards more child-friendly schools
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Abstract:
The nature of pre-school education – what it is, what it ‘looks like’, what it is meant to ‘do’, and what role the government (especially the Ministry of Education) plays in promoting it – is one of the vexing problems facing today’s educators. The relationship between pre-school and primary education is particularly problematic. Thus, the dilemma: to ease the transition from pre-school to primary school, do we formalise the informal in order to give children the best possible start in an increasingly competitive academic world, or do we informalise the formal, reversing the growing rigid and achievement-oriented nature of early primary education?
Authors:
Shaeffer, S.
Category:
Research
End Page:
22
Serial number:
107
ISSN:
1387-9553
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Keywords:
education
,
children
Language:
eng
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Year:
2006
Right:
© 2006 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Subject:
Education, Science and Technology
Start Page:
20
Title:
Formalise the informal, or informalise the formal : towards more child-friendly schools