TY - BOOK ID - 14626191 TI - Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies AU - Rao, Nirmala. AU - Zhou, Jing. AU - Sun, Jin. PY - 2017 SN - 940241004X 9402410031 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - International education. KW - Comparative education. KW - Educational policy. KW - ducation and state. KW - Early Childhood Education. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - International and Comparative Education. KW - Early childhood education KW - Education, Preschool KW - Education KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Education, Comparative KW - Global education KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Internationalism KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Government policy KW - History KW - Early childhood education. KW - Child development. KW - Education and state. KW - International education . KW - Child study KW - Development, Child KW - Developmental biology KW - Development UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14626191 AB - This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People’s Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values, Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political, economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality, and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood education. This book is the first English-language research-based review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the increased recognition of the importance of early childhood education for human capital development globally, and the international interest in understanding early education in Chinese societies. ER -