Assignment on Critical Skills
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Assignment on Critical Skills
Added on 2021-06-18
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Running head:CRITICAL REFLECTION Critical ReflectionName of student:Name of university:Author note:
1CRITICAL REFLECTION In the present paper I would carry out a critical reflection on early childhood and care(ECEC) policy of Hong Kong for free education.The aim of the paper is to critically reflect onhow personal understanding of early childhood education and care policy has developed in thismodule (Policy Issues in Early Childhood: National and International Perspectives). I wouldhave the focus on trends on the development of the ECEC policy and the issues in the same. Iwould apply theories to early childhood studies. Further, I would apply the theoreticalperspectives on social policy to support the analysis. Lastly, I would reflect on how my personalunderstanding of ECEC policy has significantly developed through engagement with the policydocument Hong Kong ECEC policy free voucher scheme, and how it would help me in future. Iwould use the Brook field's four lenses of reflection would be used for this critical reflectionwriting to support the arguments.Brookfield had proposed four lenses to engage in criticalreflection; the autobiographical, our colleagues' experiences, the students' eyes, and theoreticalliterature. Reflecting on the learning from this module named Policy Issues in Early Childhood:National and International Perspectives I would like to state that prior to this module I lackedsufficient knowledge of the different policies that have been set in place for early childhoodeducation. The module helped me in to increase my knowledge about the implications of thesepolicies and how issues of early childhood education are solved. The key issues that I came toknow about policies are regarding quality, marketing, and globalization. I also gainedinformation on the rationale behind policies and how theories can be applied for analysis of suchpolicies. In this module I choose the Hong Kong ECEC policy as it has KG system of educationand I worked in nurseries as KG system as well. It was therefore a good opportunity to gain moreknowledge about policies regarding KG education. The present government has set one a policy
2CRITICAL REFLECTION priority to extend the 12 year free education to 15 year for covering kindergarten education andfurther bring improvement in the quality of education in tandem (Postiglione and Ming 2017).The policy issue that would be discussed first is quality of the ECEC policy. According tothe theory put forward by Foucault, power is everywhere. The scientist had opposed the idea thatpower is predominantly wielded by people by sovereign acts of coercion. Truth is a thingemerging in this world and each society has its regime of truth. It has been provide that theregimes of truth arise from scientific discourse, and are armored in a constant manner throughthe education system (Ball 2017). Reflecting on this theory I opine that the ECEC policy for freeeducation has emerged from the realization that high quality education can only ensure power inthe society. As per the belief of my colleague, the policy has been suitable address to theresponse needed to manage growing need of education. From the learner’s perspective, it wouldbe welcoming to receive free education at the initial stage. As mentioned by Gulson et al. (2015)power in the society can be established by educating the masses. The theory of social construction of childhood seeks to understand how children’sknowledge is constructed. Social construction of childhood is embedded in different componentsof societies and cultures. These thinking of a child is developed from a number of factors thatfunction together to establish a relationship between the child and the surrounding (Luke 2018).The theoretical perspective of child right entails that each child has the fundament right toreceive education at the elementary level. The education system has to function to deeplyinfluence the access of children to education, and look into matters of economic and socialequations (Kumpulainen et al. 2014). Based on this understanding I would like to mention thatthe ECEC policy is an ideal approach since its aims to invest in the enhancement of quality ofearly childhood education. However, a doubt arises in this respect that whether offering a
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