Early childhood
education
Preschools provide
education from ages approximately three to seven, depending on the country when
children enter primary education. These
are also known as nursery schools and
as kindergarten, except
in the US, where kindergarten is a term used for primary education] Kindergarten
"provide a child-centred, preschool
curriculum for three- to seven-year-old children that aim[s] at unfolding the
child's physical, intellectual, and moral nature with balanced emphasis on each
of them
Early childhood education (ECE also nursery
education) is a branch of education theory which
relates to the teaching of young children (formally and
informally) up until the age of about eight. Infant/toddler education, a subset
of early childhood education, denotes the education of children from birth to
age two.[1] It
emerged as a field of study during the Enlightenment, particularly in European
countries with high literacy rates.[2] It
continued to grow through the nineteenth century as universal primary education
became a norm in the Western world. In recent years, early childhood education
has become a prevalent public policy issue, as municipal, state, and federal
lawmakers consider funding for preschool and pre-K. It is described as an important period in
child's development. It refers to the all-round development of a child's
personality.
While the first two
years of a child's life are spent in the creation of a child's first
"sense of self", most children are able to differentiate between
themselves and others by their second year. This differentiation is crucial to
the child's ability to determine how they should function in relation to other people.[11] Parents
can be seen as a child's first teacher and therefore an integral part of the
early learning process.
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