Schoolification of Early Childhood Education in Chile: Agreements among Actors in the Field on its Definition, Causes and Proposals
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n54.953Keywords:
early childhood education, schoolification, school readiness, early childhood pedagogyAbstract
This article presents findings from a research aimed at identifying the main consensus on the definition, causes and proposals on the schoolification of early childhood education in Chile, according to the vision of actors in the field. Relying on an exploratory and qualitative design, data was gathered through individual interviews to both current and former national governmental authorities, as well as to principals, pedagogical leaders and early childhood teachers (N = 43) from 5 early childhood centers and 5 schools, selected for convenience, all of them publicly funded, and encompassing classrooms for, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds" classrooms. Having conducted content analysis and data triangulation, findings show that these three groups of actors defined the schoolification of early childhood education as a pedagogical phenomenon, which affects mostly 4- and 5-year -olds" classrooms, valuing it negatively. Identifying as causes a number of cultural elements and structural factors of quality, they proposed measures of public policy to revert this trend
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors retain their Copyright and only transfer a part of these to the journal, accepting the following conditions:
Authors keep their rights as authors and guarantee the right to the journal for the first publication of their work, which is simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution license allowing third parties to share the study accrediting the author and first publication in this journal.
Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the version of the published work (e.g. inclusion in an institutional thematic file or publication in a monographic volume) accrediting initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed and recommended to share their work over the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematic files or their website) before and during the submission process, which may lead to interesting exchanges and increased citation of the published work. (See The effect of open access).
