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Direct linkTobin, Joseph – Early Education and Development, 2005
I use examples from my ethnographic work on early childhood education and care settings in Japan and France to demonstrate that quality standards are cultural constructs and to question the universality of such core U.S. standards of quality in ECEC as low student-teacher ratios and multicultural curricula. My argument is that quality standards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
