Early Childhood Care and Education Discussion 2022

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION
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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION
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Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................5
References:......................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction:
Early childhood care and education are of utmost importance and very much effective for the
growth and development for the children. It has a positive impact on children’s mental growth
and learning as well. The children belonging to the age group from 1-8 years need special care
and early childhood education for their brain development. With the help of this children can
learn how to build social interactions and this will also become helpful to build their cognitive
learning and important lifelong lessons.
Discussion:
In Australia, this ECCE is divided into two parts which are formal care and informal care. In
terms of formal care, the children belonging to 2-4 age groups are being sent send to preschool
where they learn about building social interactions and communications (Cumming, Sumsion &
Wong, 2015). The long day care schools are also available for Australian children belonging to
the 2-4 age groups. In Australia the informal care education means the learning and education
which are given by the parents and grandparents which are important for the children who
belong to 0-12 age group and research points out about 16% children in Australia are being
taken care of by their parents and grandparents (Cloney, Cleveland, Hattie & Tayler, 2016).