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- Title
The New Advocacy in Early Childhood Education.
- Authors
Kagan, Sharon Lynn
- Abstract
This article emphasizes on the need of advocacy in early childhood education in the U.S. It elaborates four reasons for advocacy: to preserve existing programs; to increase capacity and quality of service; to make early education more accessible, affordable, and equitable; and to educate the public about the needs of very young children and their parents in the country. There can be no doubt that the early childhood profession is divided in its attitude toward the role, function, and desirability of advocacy. While some, including many practitioners, feel threatened and overwhelmed by the work of advocacy, others are invigorated by and actively engaged in advocacy activities. This advocacy hesitancy did not appear spontaneously. Rather, it is rooted in the history and reality of the early childhood profession. For many years, the real practice of early childhood transpired in the classroom. Pre-professional training fortified this orientation by stressing classroom pedagogy and curricular strategies at the expense of advocacy or policy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EARLY childhood education; SOCIAL advocacy; UNITED States education system; CHILDREN; PARENTS
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1989, Vol 90, Issue 3, p465
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818909000315