Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)
This document discusses early childhood care and development in the Philippines. It outlines the constitutional and international obligations to protect children's rights and provide early education. The objectives for early childhood care and development include designating a single agency responsible, including one more year of preschool, accrediting private programs, and integrating health and nutrition services into early education programs. The document also discusses the legal frameworks governing early childhood development and the establishment of a national system. It considers whether preschool should be part of the formal school system or operated non-formally, and whether intervention should be through institutionalization or integration.
Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)
- 1. ECCDEARLY CHILDHOOD Care and development
- 2. Early Childhood Care and Development 1987 Philippine Constitution UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Education for All (EFA) Agenda ARTICLE XV Section 2 “The right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to their development.”
- 3. EFA Initial Planning Targets for Early Childhood Care and Development (1990-1992 and Year 2000)
- 4. ECCD objectives Designating a single agency to be responsible for early childhood development Including another year of preparatory schooling for six- year olds as part of the formal school system Accrediting private school programs and institutions Designing focused and differentiated approaches for special categories of children Integrating health, nutrition, and other allied services in the programs and services Adapting curriculum, materials and approaches to the Filipino child’s socio- cultural milieu Managing early childhood development programs and services with emphasis on community-based activities Exploring and using various approaches to parent education
- 7. Legal Framework for Governance of Early Childhood Care and Development The Child and Youth Welfare Code of 1974 The Local Government Code of 1991
- 8. Establishment of the National System for ECCD
- 11. What kind of intervention is needed? Should preschool be made part of the formal school system or should it continue to be operated on a non-formal basis? Should the intervention be done through institutionalizatio n or integration?
- 12. Integration The inclusion of preschool education in the formal school structure. Institutionalization The formal recognition of ECCD as part of non-formal education
- 17. Level Age Requirement Nursery classes 3-4 years old Kindergarten Classes 4-5 years old Preschools 5-6 years old Ministry of Education (MEC) Order No. 24, s. 1979 Age Requirements for Admission
- 18. Independent Private Preschools To prepare young children to formal schooling To provide surrogate parenting to children of working parents To promote specific philosophy of education
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