The CIES Annual Meeting will be convened in Mexico City under the theme “Re-mapping Global Education: South-North Dialogue” and under the leadership of President-Elect Regina Cortina (Teachers College, Columbia University). This conference builds upon the call made just over two decades earlier at the 1997 conference to embrace diversity and pluralism in our work. The conference aims to shift the traditional starting point of research and practice to a greater extent towards the global South. Emphasizing South-North dialogue and South-South collaboration, the aim is to expand our awareness of and engagement with the voices, actors and knowledge producers that have historically been marginalized in educational research and institutions.
R4D will be attending the conference and will be participating in two panels. In addition, please visit us in the Exhibit Hall at booth 66.
The Equity Initiative: Traveling the Road of Expanding Access to Quality Pre-Primary Education Opportunities: Towards a Competent and Efficient Sub-sector
Tuesday, March 27, 5:00 to 6:30pm
Hilton Reforma, 2nd Floor, Don Genaro
This panel considers the following system level challenges and solutions: (1) analysis and coherence in developing the pre-primary sub-sector; (2) pre-primary teacher workforce development; and (3) governance and decentralization of pre-primary services. Each theme will be explored separately in the context of expansion of pre-primary education. The panel will discuss lessons learned, and propose strategies and actions that are needed to strengthen planning for expansion and implementation at scale. This panel is relevant to both the global education and early childhood scholarly and practitioner communities.
R4D panelist:
Michelle Neuman
Strengthening and supporting the early childhood workforce at scale: A comparative review
Thursday, March 29, 8:00 to 9:30am
Hilton Reforma, Suite 3
This paper addresses some of these questions by presenting findings from country studies of the early childhood workforce in Peru, South Africa, and Ukraine. The research aims to shed light on the challenges affecting the quality and supply of the early childhood workforce, identify recommendations to overcome these bottlenecks in each country, as well as share broader cross-country lessons to inform efforts to improve policies for the early childhood workforce in diverse contexts. Each country study focused on specific members of the early childhood workforce who work in programs for children birth to age 8 and their families. These programs include the Cuna Más Home Visiting program in Peru, preschool programs in Ukraine, and first 1,000 days services in South Africa. In each country, the research teams carried out key informant interviews and focus groups of early childhood practitioners, parents, local and national policymakers, and representatives of training and professional organizations and then analyzed these data using qualitative methods. Where feasible, cost data were incorporated into the analysis.
R4D authors:
Kimberly Josephson
Kavita Hatipoglu
Michelle Neuman
Vidya Putcha
