Формирование у дошкольников представлений о форме величине, пространственных отношениях объектов

2. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Canada is striking for its tremendous diversity – some would say fragmentation – on such key issues as curriculum, financing, and teacher education.

Terms used to describe educational programs included infant schools, nurs - ery schools, preschools, play schools, and kindergartens.

1. Formal programs for the care and education of young children in Canada have a history that goes back almost 200 years. Nonetheless, issues surrounding services for our youngest Canadians continue to be hotly contested as the current century comes to a close. As one commentator noted, the history of programs for young children in North America has a “complicated and distinctive character, one filled with various strains and tensions” (Schickedanz 1995, 6).

3. The entire enterprise, from an educational standpoint, was termed nursery education beginning in the 1920s and, later, early childhood education.

5. Wariness about the future and growing disbelief in inevitable progress through science is reflected in an ambiguity about the identity we have thrust on the child in time” (1996, 392-3). As Nina Howe points out in her concluding chapter, “there are no simple answers” or formulas for the one best way to serve the diverse needs of children and families in Canada.

4. We believe that the result is a book that brings together points of view seldom presented on the same stage: historians, policy analysts, educators, and researchers sit side by side..