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- Title: More Alike Than Different: Early Childhood Professional Development in Guatemala (Report)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
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Vibrantly colored textiles, volcanoes nested among emerald green valleys, and ancient Maya cities are some of the images of Guatemala that win the hearts of many visitors. Located in Central America, Guatemala has a population of approximately 12.3 million people, including more than two million children under the age of 5 (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007; UNICEF, 2004). More than 56 percent of the population lives in extreme poverty, making Guatemala one of the poorest countries in Latin America (The World Bank Group, 2007). Because many families struggle to meet basic needs, large numbers of children enter the labor force early on and mothers often seek work outside the home. This article describes an early childhood professional development project that took place in the summer of 2005 in Guatemala City, and discusses its implications for future early childhood education collaboration in Guatemala. Events leading up to this training began in 2003, when one training team member conducted a reliability and validity study of the Spanish edition of the ACEI Global Guidelines Assessment (GGA) in five Latin America countries, including Guatemala (Barbour, Boyer, Hardin, & Wortham, 2004). The GGA is designed to assist early childhood care and education professionals in assessing and improving the quality of individual centers or groups of centers, particularly those in developing countries. The GGA is based on the Global Guidelines for Education and Care in the 21st Century (ACEI & OMEP, 2000). The current GGA (revised in 2006) contains 88 items across five program areas: Environment and Physical Space, Curriculum Content and Pedagogy, Early Childhood Educators and Caregivers, Partnerships With Families and Communities, and Young Children With Special Needs.
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