Early Childhood Education and Care in Zambia: ECE Provision and Teacher Education

Title: Early Childhood Education and Care in Zambia: ECE Provision and Teacher Education
Creator: Kaunda, Ronald L.; Ailwood, Joanne
Relation: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Teacher Education in the 21st Century p. 251-264
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5739-9_16
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: A focus on early childhood education in Zambia is a recent development, being the focus of various government policies since 2013. Prior to this early childhood education was privately provided (e.g. through private schools), but there was no country-wide framework or guidelines. In 2014, the Teaching Council of Zambia was created to provide professional accreditation and regulation of teacher education and the teaching profession across Zambia. Since the creation of TCZ, a minimum early childhood teacher education qualification at Diploma level as been required and enforced. Given its short history, it is unsurprising to find that there is currently an undersupply of qualified early childhood teachers across Zambia. This chapter explores these recent developments in the Zambian early childhood education sector and considers ongoing potentials and tensions.
Subject: early childhood education; education; early childhood teachers; Zambia
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1492834
Identifier: uon:53424
Identifier: ISBN:9789811657382
Language: eng

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