Full Description
Early Childhood Education in the Arabian Peninsula explores the challenges, achievements and opportunities within the Arab region's Early Childhood Education (ECE) landscape, bridging global educational frameworks with culturally responsive practices.
Organized into three sections, it offers a comprehensive exploration of milestones, educational frameworks, and success stories in the region with a strong practical component that can contribute to early years curriculum development. Despite the immense progress made in many Arabian Peninsula countries in the field in the last decade, there are still areas that require considerable improvement with some major priorities being inclusion and well-being, quality of ECE workforce and its training, and culturally sensitive curriculum development.
This book will serve as a roadmap to transforming ECE in the Arabian Peninsula, providing support to stakeholders in their task of reimagining ECE and of creating solid, research-based and region-oriented frameworks and curricula. It will be an indispensable resource for policymakers, researchers but, especially, for educators.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Daniela Coelho
Part 1
Milestones, policies, challenges and achievements in Early Childhood Education in the Arabian Peninsula
o Chapter 1:
The current state, the milestones and the future plans for early years in the UAE and the Arabian Gulf: A conversation with Dr. Hanan Sukkar - Hanan Sukkar & Daniela Coelho
o Chapter 2
Shaping the Future: Early Childhood Education Policies and Practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council States - Susan Kippels
o Chapter 3
The Quality of Private Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Matters for Zero to Four Years Children: A Ras Al Khaimah Emirate-based Case Study - Priti Verma
Part 2
Frameworks, methodologies and strategies for ECE in the Arabian Peninsula: contributions to a region-oriented ECE curriculum
o Chapter 4
Playful pedagogies in the UAE - a phenomenological exploration of current practice - Anna Dillon
o Chapter 5
The Future Early Childhood Curriculum in the United Arab Emirates - Majida Mehana
o Chapter 6
Des-neoliberalising and de-academicising ECE curriculum in the GCC region: reflecting on the potentialities of playfying and plurilingualising ECE to prioritise mother tongue(s) - Daniela Coelho
o Chapter 7
Arabic Language Literacy in Early Childhood Education in the Arabian Gulf - Hanada Taha Thomure
Part 3
Good practices in ECE in the Arabian Peninsula: stories to inspire current and future educators
o Chapter 8
From home to policy: Strengthening Arabic through intentional practices in Emirati early childhoods - Nadine Jaafarawi & Fatma Said
o Chapter 9
Shared Picture Book Reading in Emirati Homes: Translanguaging Spaces in Early Childhood - Sumaya Saqr, Kay Gallagher, Ana Dillon & Claudine Habak
o Chapter 10
Promising Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Oman: A narrative for present and future educators - Laila Al Salmi & Muna Al Siyabi
