Early Childhood Education
What does the field study?
Early childhood education studies children and childhood until about the age of eight while paying particular attention to their rights and needs as well as consistently examining childhood in relationships and in certain historical contexts as a shifting and changing phenomenon. The core of study is formed by the individual development of children, various environments for development – especially early childhood education development services and the necessary pedagogy needed to achieve educational interactions occurring within such services – as well as the social, public and global dimensions of early childhood education.
What questions does the field examine?
How is childhood structured for children in society, communities, early childhood education institutions, and families? What are the educational, growing, learning, and teaching processes as well as the support for such processes, and various learning environments during the early years? How do organizations of early childhood educational services function?
