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Global and Local Discourses in India's Policies for Early Childhood Education: Policy Borrowing and Local Realities
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Gupta, Amita – Comparative Education, 2022
The Indian Government released the latest version of its National Education Policy (NEP) on 31 July 2020 -- a document last revised in 1986. The Early Childhood Education (ECE) section of this new policy urges a Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) approach incorporating 'play-based, activity-based, and discovery-based learning' (NEP…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
"Global Desi?": Possibilities and Challenges for Global Citizenship Education in India
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Dhuru, Simantini; Thapliyal, Nisha – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as 'intensified encounters with difference' constituted by contradictory and paradoxical movements. A decolonial approach to constructing global imaginaries centres on reconfiguring human relations in ways that unmask complicity and denial and further healing, justice and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism
Preparing Teachers in a Pedagogy of Third Space: A Postcolonial Approach to Contextual and Sustainable Early Childhood Teacher Education
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Gupta, Amita – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
This article draws from a series of qualitative inquiries conducted with early childhood teachers in some Asian countries (primarily India) and interrogates the sustainability of applying Euro-Western pedagogical frameworks to inform the preparation of early childhood teachers who will teach in non-western contexts. The author suggests a more…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Postcolonialism, Sustainability, Culturally Relevant Education