{"title":"Towards circles of care and education: Exploring understandings of quality in early childhood development","authors":"Lucy R. O’Keeffe, S. Southwood, Nicci Hayes","doi":"10.4102/sajce.v12i1.1061","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Early childhood development (ECD) is increasingly being recognised as vital for the care and education of our children, particularly in countries such as South Africa where vast social disparities have a significant influence on development and well-being. Aim: This study aimed to explore and develop understandings of quality in early childhood care and education in a particular setting. Setting: The setting of this community research project is a small rural town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The project is facilitated by a non-governmental organisation affiliated with a university in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, working with participants from two neighbourhood hubs. This study coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Located in a social constructionist paradigm, the research methodology may be described as participatory, polyphonic and appreciative. Responses from simple, positively constructed questions, framed by dimensions of an ecological systems model, were interrogated through a multilayered process of content analysis. Results: Analysis of the data led to a range of themes and evidence of significant role players, around quality ECD. These were developed into two simple frameworks, capturing conceptual and contextual aspects of quality ECD: ‘Quality Early Childhood Development’ and ‘Circles of Care and Education’. Conclusion: The juxtaposition of the conceptual and contextual frames is offered as a simple, yet comprehensive, tool to scaffold ongoing research and support further development of quality ECD practice. © 2022. The Authors.","PeriodicalId":55958,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of Childhood Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South African Journal of Childhood Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v12i1.1061","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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走向关爱和教育圈:探索对幼儿发展质量的理解
背景:幼儿发展(ECD)越来越被认为对我们儿童的护理和教育至关重要,尤其是在南非等国家,那里巨大的社会差距对发展和福祉有着重大影响。目的:本研究旨在探索和发展对特定环境下幼儿保育和教育质量的理解。背景:这个社区研究项目的背景是南非东开普省的一个农村小镇。该项目由一个隶属于南非东开普省一所大学的非政府组织推动,该组织与来自两个社区中心的参与者合作。这项研究恰逢新冠肺炎大流行的开始。方法:在社会建构主义范式下,研究方法论可以被描述为参与性、复调性和欣赏性。通过内容分析的多层次过程,对以生态系统模型的维度为框架的简单、积极构建的问题的回答进行了询问。结果:对数据的分析引出了一系列主题和重要角色扮演者的证据,围绕着高质量的幼儿发展。这些框架被发展成两个简单的框架,涵盖了优质幼儿发展的概念和背景方面:“优质幼儿发展”和“护理和教育圈”。结论:概念框架和上下文框架的并置是一种简单而全面的工具,可以支持正在进行的研究,并支持高质量ECD实践的进一步发展。©2022。作者。
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