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Early childhood education for marginalized children in India: deconstructing quality

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sage Publications 2022 New DelhiDescription: xxiv, 357 p. : ill. Includes indexISBN:
  • 9789354791468
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.210954 E2
Summary: Societal hierarchies in the form of caste, gender, religion and class continue to deprive a large percentage of young children in India of learning opportunities, leading to intergenerational poverty. Existing research indicates that this cycle can be broken by providing appropriate early childhood care and education. Early Childhood Education for Marginalized Children in India reviews India’s achievements and challenges, and identifies the complex issues related to providing early childhood education to children from marginalized communities. The book presents evidence-based approaches to developing and scaling up good quality early childhood education programmes. It explores what ‘quality’ means in the Indian context and identifies core elements that must be integral to all initiatives that aim to promote holistic development, while addressing India’s significant scale and sociocultural diversity. The available literature has mostly discussed information from Western nations and the book attempts to address this gap. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/early-childhood-education-for-marginalized-children-in-india/book280989
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Table of Contents

PART I: Early Childhood Education in India: Quest for Quality
Challenges and Possibilities in Early Childhood Education
Venita Kaul and Monimalika Day
Deconstructing Quality: Grounded Theory from Multiple Case Studies
Monimalika Day
Curriculum in Multi-age Classrooms: Responding to Developmental and Contextual Challenges
Monimalika Day
Early Childhood Education Teachers in India: Professionals or Volunteers?
Venita Kaul and Swati Sawhney
Scaling Up and Contextualizing Early Childhood Education Quality: Negotiating the Paradox
Venita Kaul and Monimalika Day

PART II: Quality Preschool Programmes for Children in the Margins
Place-based Education in Himalayan Villages
Monimalika Day and Swati Bawa Sawhney
Community-managed Balwadi-cum- Crèches in Tribal Communities
Usha Abrol and Ratnamala Vallury
Relationship-based Programme for Semi-urban Communities
Nandita Chaudhary and Shashi Shukla
Educating Children from Urban Dalit Communities
Suman Sachdeva and Ashutosh Mishra
Community-based Programme in Urban Slums
Usha Nayar and Reeta Sonawat
Cooperative Preschools in a Cosmopolitan City
Usha Abrol and Chitkalamba N.
Diffusion Model: Scaling Up Quality in Tribal Areas
Venita Kaul and Preeti Mahalwal
Public-Private Partnership for Government Preschools in Rural Areas
Harini Raval

Societal hierarchies in the form of caste, gender, religion and class continue to deprive a large percentage of young children in India of learning opportunities, leading to intergenerational poverty. Existing research indicates that this cycle can be broken by providing appropriate early childhood care and education. Early Childhood Education for Marginalized Children in India reviews India’s achievements and challenges, and identifies the complex issues related to providing early childhood education to children from marginalized communities.

The book presents evidence-based approaches to developing and scaling up good quality early childhood education programmes. It explores what ‘quality’ means in the Indian context and identifies core elements that must be integral to all initiatives that aim to promote holistic development, while addressing India’s significant scale and sociocultural diversity. The available literature has mostly discussed information from Western nations and the book attempts to address this gap.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/early-childhood-education-for-marginalized-children-in-india/book280989

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