Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)

This article presents a quality analysis on early childhood education (ECE), built on a case study about curriculum decision-making. The study considered four scenarios of discussion regarding the concept of quality: (1) universal and cultural values of the concept that goes through the teaching pro...

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Autores principales: Herrera Vegas, María Eugenia; Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA), Sarlé, Patricia M.; Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/riie/article/view/5729
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topic Educational quality - Curriculum decision-making - Early childhood education - Quality standards - Curriculum models - Curricular implementation
Calidad educative - Organización de la enseñanza - Educación infantile - Estándares de calidad - Modelos curriculares - Implementación curricular.
spellingShingle Educational quality - Curriculum decision-making - Early childhood education - Quality standards - Curriculum models - Curricular implementation
Calidad educative - Organización de la enseñanza - Educación infantile - Estándares de calidad - Modelos curriculares - Implementación curricular.
Herrera Vegas, María Eugenia; Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA)
Sarlé, Patricia M.; Universidad de Buenos Aires
Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
topic_facet Educational quality - Curriculum decision-making - Early childhood education - Quality standards - Curriculum models - Curricular implementation
Calidad educative - Organización de la enseñanza - Educación infantile - Estándares de calidad - Modelos curriculares - Implementación curricular.
author Herrera Vegas, María Eugenia; Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA)
Sarlé, Patricia M.; Universidad de Buenos Aires
author_facet Herrera Vegas, María Eugenia; Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA)
Sarlé, Patricia M.; Universidad de Buenos Aires
author_sort Herrera Vegas, María Eugenia; Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA)
title Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
title_short Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
title_full Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
title_fullStr Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
title_full_unstemmed Quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
title_sort quality in curriculum decision-making in early childhood education (in classrooms for children of 4 and 5 years old)
description This article presents a quality analysis on early childhood education (ECE), built on a case study about curriculum decision-making. The study considered four scenarios of discussion regarding the concept of quality: (1) universal and cultural values of the concept that goes through the teaching process; (2) associations between quality and available structural factors; (3) discussion on the selection of academic or developmental contents; (4) pedagogical decisions applied to practical classroom teaching. Results describe decisions that are conditioned by local regulatory gaps (territorial, institutional, curricular, teacher training, and governance), with naturalized, cultural approaches to overcoming teaching challenges. Structural factors present a diverse range of conditions that can be associated to pedagogical autonomy of early childhood education. When considering the federal curriculum program, decision-making is more oriented towards early childhood developmental contents than academic skills, which are considered in different types of pedagogical decisions, and mostly focused in the central activity of the school day. These “collection of activities”, in the majority of cases, are not linked to learning goals or common topics. Spontaneous and reflexive decisions that organize teacher interventions and children interaction are not recorded or conceptualize by teachers, although they can be observed in class. A reduced number of good practices were pertinent, in terms of contents, learning goals and knowledge about the group of children, records for self-observation, based on teachers’ individual decisions.
publisher Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación
publishDate 2021
url https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/riie/article/view/5729
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