Early Childhood Education and School Readiness in India: Quality and Diversity

Book Overview

Part 1 Background.- Chapter 1 Introduction: Positioning School Readiness and Early Childhood Education in the Indian Context Venita Kaul.- Chapter 2 Research in India on Early Childhood Education and School Readiness: Some Learnings Venita Kaul.- Part 2 Children Ready for School.- Chapter 3 Till What Age is 'Age' Relevant? Examining the Effect of Age on Early Learning Manjistha Banerji and Mansi Nanda.- Chapter 4 Positioning Psycho-Social Development Within the Construct of School Readiness: Challenges and Opportunities Meenakshi Dogra and Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary.- Chapter 5 Does Participation in Preschool Help Children's Early Grade Learning? Wilima Wadhwa, Suman Bhattacharjea and Manjistha Banerji.- Part 3 Schools Ready for Children.- Chapter 6 Where do young children go? Provisioning in Early Childhood Education Purnima Ramanujan and Nayan Dave.- Chapter 7 What Works for School Readiness? Understanding Quality in Preschool Education Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary and Venita Kaul.- Chapter 8 Language Literacy and Bilingualism in the Early Years Sunita Singh.- Chapter 9 Situating Teacher Beliefs Sunita Singh and Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary.- Chapter 10 Are Schools 'Ready for Children'? Assumptions and Ground Realities Suman Bhattacharjea.- Part 3 Families Ready for School.- Chapter 11 Participation Trends in ECE programs: Who Goes Where and Why? Ben Alcott, Suman Bhattacharjea, Purnima Ramanujan and Mansi Nanda.- Chapter 12 As We Look Ahead T.S. Saraswathi, Venita Kaul and Suman Bhattacharjea.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811370087
• ISBN13: 9789811370083
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"