European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 22(1):67-76 Foregrounding silences in the birth to four curriculum
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E-Journal
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ISSN
1752-1807
Category
ECCE
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Online, London, United Kingdom
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[ private ]
Pages
10 p.
Subject
Early childhood education, Preschool education, ECD programmes, ECCE standards, Government policy, Transformation, Evaluation, Young children, South Africa
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Abstract
The development of standards in early childhood is associated with governments wanting to assert their influence on what young children should know and be able to do before they enter formal schooling. In South Africa the National Early Learning and Development Standards (NELDS), released in 2009, attempts to assert influence in the context of social transformation of South African society through the lives of children from birth to four years. To date there has been little critical engagement with the standards. The aim of this article is to interrogate the NELDS document and to foreground the silences in the light of the transformatory ideal. In so doing, this article contributes to the debates on facilitation of processes for policy development, knowledge transfer from the minority world and the knowledge production for early care and education in the majority world.
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