Shiyan O.A. New ideas about the quality of early childhood education and its support mechanisms: the international context

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Keywords: national model of early childhood education standards of quality of early childhood education development trends of preschool education standards of achievement standards of conditions

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Shiyan O.A. New ideas about the quality of early childhood education and its support mechanisms: the international context // Preschool Education Today. 2013, Issue 5 - p. 68–78.

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Olga A. Shiyan
Cand. Sci. (Pedagogy), Leading Researcher, Child Development Laboratory, Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education, Moscow City University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

In the article current trends of development of early years education are analyzed. Special attention is paid to trends that appeared in accordance with ideas of Lev Vygotsky: to combine non-directive interaction between adult and child and to stimulate child development. The article describes modern tools of evaluation of the educational environment that supports this educational model. Educational standards are the institutional mechanism of quality support of preschool education. Particular attention is paid to American and German approach to assessment of the quality of preschool education. Based on the analysis of systems of these countries author identifies some of the universal trends of preschool education: change of vision of quality of early childhood education, which can be labeled as a “paradigm shift from a paradigm of Piaget to paradigm of Vygotsky” and the creation of an independent system of accreditation of educational programs.