‘Critically analyse your understanding of the relationship between culture and pedagogy and the implications of the globalisation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)’

International perspectives are a greatly researched and widely explored topic. One aspect that engages closely with the relationship between culture and pedagogy. Also explored throughout is the implications of how globalisation can affect early childhood education and care. The three main aspects of the essay will be looking globalisation, culture and pedagogy. This essay will address the importance of the value of play and how the western model view play to make sure it is still incorporated and that they are not taking play out of a child’s curriculum. According to McDowall-Clark (2016) “Globalisation is how modern economic systems and technology enable trade and the financial markets to operate on a global scale” (p.115). Culture can have several different meanings as everyone holds different views on what culture is believed to be. Culture is about what groups people together the beliefs, artefacts, the values and other things that are of an importance making sure that the people feel a sense of belonging to the group (Smidt, 2006). Alexander (2004) defines pedagogy as “what one needs to know, and the skills one needs to command, in order to make and justify the many different kinds of decisions of which teaching is constituted”. The key themes will look at play, quality and the rights of the child and how the child is viewed.

The global interest of early education and care (ECEC) has a big impact (Miller and Cameron, 2014) and its history of sharing its ideas internationally, with the global handover of ideas on early childhood education and care representing a broad range of theoretical approaches from the views on child development and pedological practice (Campbell-Barr and Bogatic, 2017). The curriculum has its own importance in its own right which allows children to be able to determine their own lives (Soler and Miller, 2003). Early education and care services looks at situations on a global scale (Campbell-Barr and Bogatic, 2017). Early education and care have been put in place to help services for children from birth and prior to starting to school, this can often be difficult as the ECEC is set in a global context (Campbell-Barr and Bogatic, 2017). As school starting age can vary globally, as do the facilities that come before starting school in different areas. This also may depend on the starting school age of children which can vary between country (Campbell-Barr and Bogatic, 2017). Globalisation can affect countries as they may not be in the position to provide the same form of childhood compared to others (McDowall-Clark, 2016). This has been impacted on globalisation as there has been international standards set of what childhood should be for children (Wyness, 2015).

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