Early Childhood Education and Care in the United States: An Overview of the Current Policy Picture
Early Childhood Education and Care in the United States: An Overview of the Current Policy Picture
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DOI：
10.1007/2288-6729-1-1-23
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley
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作者：
Kamerman, Sheila B.;Gatenio-Gabel, Shirley
美国的幼儿教育和保育（ECEC）包括各种半日制、全天制和全天制的项目，由教育、社会福利和商业赞助，以各种方式在公共和私营部门资助和提供。幼儿保育和教育计划的设计有时强调幼儿保育和教育计划的“照料”部分，有时则强调“教育”或对两者给予同等重视。尽管ECEC的学者和倡导者越来越相信有必要整合所有这些项目类型，但分类资金加上不同的社会价值观继续支持这些差异。其结果是幼儿保育和教育系统支离破碎，质量参差不齐，入学机会不均衡，但近年来在幼儿教育和保育一体化方面取得了一些进展。
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the US includes a wide range of part-day, full-school-day, and fullwork-day programs, under educational, social welfare, and commercial auspices, funded and delivered in a variety of ways in both the public and the private sectors, designed sometimes with an emphasis on the "care" component of ECEC and at other times with stress on "education" or with equal attention to both. Although ECEC scholars and advocates are increasingly convinced of the need to integrate all these program types, categorical funding coupled with diverse societal values continue to support the differences. The result is a fragmented ECEC system, of wideranging quality and with skewed access, but with some movement in recent years toward the integration of early childhood education and care.