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Overview and History of Early Childhood Education: What we Should Know
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Probably you have noticed children identified to possess a superior IQ (intelligence quotient) rating above the average IQ level of other children with the same age. There are also children who already know how to read at the age of three years old, plays piano at the age of seven years old, and a chess grandmaster at the age of eight years old.
Surprised? But it is really happening. And it is not impossible for your child to be like those so-called gifted children mentioned earlier. Although the cases of gifted children at young age is quite rare, there is still a possibility for every child born to posses some terrific characteristics and talents. And it is dependent on how you educate them during their early childhood stage.
Overview of Early Childhood Education
Many of these gifted children undergone so-called early childhood education. It is the stage where you are already educating your children from their infancy up to age eight. At this point, you are now preparing your children to learn various things, thus resulting to early development of different aspects of their personality.
Early childhood education involves the development of different domains of your children which is related to one another:
Their physical development, which involves the growth and development of their gross (such as walking) and fine motor (such as finger movements) control of their body.
Their sensory and perception development, which involves how they use their senses and their ability to process the information they have gained from their environment.
Their language and communication development, which involves the usage of sound and visual stimuli especially on the acquisition of the language and the exchange of feelings and thoughts.
Their cognitive development, which involves how they think and reacts according to what they are thinking.
Their emotional development, which involves their increasing awareness and management of their feeling and how will they react to such feelings in a given situation.
Their social development, which involves their identity and relationship with others as well as understanding their stand within a social surrounding.
Studies on the History Relating to Early Childhood Education
As the time evolves, the development of early childhood education is affected by various factors which are studied by different child development theorists throughout the time.
At present, there are also studies conducted to establish the relation of early childhood education today and of the past. Kathleen Cotton and Nancy Conklin conducted a study about such relations of the history with the present early childhood education system. They found out that todays system is characterized by the pre-school education activity facilitated by the Head Start program funded by the United States government in 1960. It is established to help children at their young age to overcome various developmental deficits that is evident on economically-deprived families.
By providing the necessary educational and social services to the children, it will enhance their readiness to learn and acquire new ideas. It has spread throughout the years, and eventually motivated other private institutions to facilitate such early childhood education programs.
Early childhood education is part of our history. We have learned the way of how we can educate our children at their young age. And it will continue to be a part of our lives even into the future.
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