TY - CHAP
T1 - Prophesying early childhood educational care in India
T2 - My insider/outsider postcolonial vision
AU - Srinivasan, Prasanna
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Time and time again early childhood educational care has been touted as being foundational for not just the future of those individuals, but for the wellbeing and the betterment of the world. I did not plan to talk about the women of India when I began writing this chapter. I justify briefly why I initially decided to talk about women’s matters when talking about children’s matters. Firstly, one common government department, the Ministry of Women and Child Development takes responsibility for the development and implementation of policies that concern both women and young children of India. Therefore, as the name implies, political action for and about women and children is developed by the same department; and this provides a political space to discuss women’s experiences when discussing the educational care of young children in India. Secondly, India is the second most populous country in the world with around 158 million children between the ages of 0 and 6 (Census India in Child population in the age group 0–6 by sex: 2011. New Delhi: The Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, 2011).
AB - Time and time again early childhood educational care has been touted as being foundational for not just the future of those individuals, but for the wellbeing and the betterment of the world. I did not plan to talk about the women of India when I began writing this chapter. I justify briefly why I initially decided to talk about women’s matters when talking about children’s matters. Firstly, one common government department, the Ministry of Women and Child Development takes responsibility for the development and implementation of policies that concern both women and young children of India. Therefore, as the name implies, political action for and about women and children is developed by the same department; and this provides a political space to discuss women’s experiences when discussing the educational care of young children in India. Secondly, India is the second most populous country in the world with around 158 million children between the ages of 0 and 6 (Census India in Child population in the age group 0–6 by sex: 2011. New Delhi: The Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, 2011).
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-10-2207-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-981-10-2207-4_5
M3 - Chapter (Book)
SN - 9789811022050
T3 - New frontiers of educational research
SP - 65
EP - 81
BT - Contemporary Issues and Challenge in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
A2 - Li, Minyi
A2 - Fox, Jillian L.
A2 - Grieshaber, Susan
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -