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Benz, Victoria – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This ethnographic study explores aspects of bilingual education in two early childhood German-English education centres in Australia. Using various sources of data and multiple methods of analysis, it investigates the processes at work when establishing and implementing a bilingual programme and examines the language attitudes, ideologies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
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Kalliala, Marjatta – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
In recent decades, the notion of the competent child has, in the field of Early Childhood Education, become a powerful discourse. In this paradigm, inspired by the sociology of childhood, the child is seen as a competent social actor having agency in his or her life. However, critical comments have been made at both the micro-and macro-level about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Competence, Child Care Centers