Significance of Early Education - Comparison of ECEC Practices in Australia & Korea

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Title: Significance of Early Education
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Significance of Early Education 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Comparison of ECEC Practices in Australia & Korea....................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Significance of Early Education 2
Introduction
For the future development of children, it is very important to lay the foundation strong.
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) plays a vital role for the children and their families
in the future. The children have to be nurtured properly as the impact of the Early Childhood
Education and Care helps in generating high quality results for the children. The Australian
government has identified its benefits and have invested billions of dollars for the ECEC
services. The ECEC program helps in the overall development of the children by enhancing their
various aspects like physical, emotional, motor, language, cognitive and social development.
Comparison of ECEC Practices in Australia & Korea
Each country has a different set of guidelines that are drawn from managing the Early
Childhood Education and Care. But the significance of the ECEC has been noticed by many
countries around the world, and each country is formulating better programs for the effective
implementation of the ECEC.
In Korea, the administration of the ECEC is divided into two authorities that includes the
Ministry of Health and Welfare under, which children up to the age of 5 are considered and the
other responsibility is bestowed on the Ministry of Education, which includes the children who
are in kindergarten that means that children who are at the age of 3 and also include the children
who have just started the primary school that means children at the age of 6. This split of
responsibility has a number of pros and cons (Watson, 2012). It is a good approach as it will
divide the children which will help in focusing better on each child, but the involvement of two
ministries has generated a complex system due to which the funding of the ECEC programs will
suffer.