Quality Early Childhood Care and Education in India:Initiatives, Practice, Challenges and Enablers

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 환태평양유아교육연구학회
· 수록지 정보 : Asia-Pacific journal of research in early childhood education / 11권 / 1호
· 저자명 : Chandra Reetu, Gulati Renu, Sharma Adarsh

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초록

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is globally recognized as a crucial element of education
for all. Therefore, countries have intensely pursued it. After many efforts, progress towards ensuring
ECCE is apparent in many countries in the world. But most of them could not either completely
achieve this goal or compromised its quality due to inadequate resources, improper planning and
ineffective implementation strategies; especially a vast and populous country like India. A number of
initiatives have been taken by the Government of India for bringing quality in the form of policies,
plans, constitutional amendments, acts, development of quality standards and curriculum framework,
schemes and flagship programs like Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); District Primary
Education Programme (DPEP) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). In this endeavour, somewhere
India has compromised with the non-negotiable quality standards for ECCE, leading the emergence of
expected and unexpected issues and challenges. As a result, the country has missed the target of
ensuring quality in ECCE. However, recent studies give evidence of tremendous progress towards
quality reforms. Of course, there are low achievements in some aspects and in some regions, but also
improvement in others which shows that ensuring quality is an attainable target. This paper intends to
describe initiatives of the Government of India, assess the ground realities, identify major challenges
in quality reform in ECCE and suggest possible enablers to reach out the same.

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