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Instituting Change in Early Childhood Education: Recent Developments in Singapore

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In an effort to improve preschool education, the Singapore government has embraced the need for change by identifying needed policies related to preschool education. These changes require teachers to rethink their approach to learning and teaching. A proposed tool suggested in this paper that may help facilitate curriculum change is the use of pedagogical documentation. This paper examines some impact, implications and challenges for adopting such a tool with the stakeholders in Singapore.

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  1. School of Education, University of South Australia, Lorne Avenue, Magill, South Australia, 5072, Australia

    Marjory Ebbeck

  2. SEED Institute, 73 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore, 189556, Singapore

    Yvonne Yoke Yin Chan

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Ebbeck, M., Chan, Y.Y.Y. Instituting Change in Early Childhood Education: Recent Developments in Singapore. Early Childhood Educ J 38, 457–463 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-010-0435-8

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