Curriculum in early childhood education: Global policy discourses and country‐level responses in Aotearoa New Zealand and England
Elizabeth Wood,
Helen Hedges
Abstract:In early childhood education (ECE), global policy discourses influence national policy frameworks for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices. Although aspects of these discourses travel across national boundaries via policy borrowing, we argue that consideration is needed of the cultural–historical evolution of country‐level systems, their epistemological foundations and different goals or aspirations. We combine a cultural–historical perspective with critical policy text analysis to examine two curricu… Show more
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