Language: English

ISSN: 0959-4108

Abstract/Notes: Overcoming challenges to quality early education in developing nations, TEACH Rwanda, one high-performing education system, offers a model of childhood learning through sensitive teacher dispositions, child-centred play, and culturally relevant materials. This manuscript provides a unique window into the practices of a quality early childhood system in Rwanda and articulates how these high-quality approaches to early childhood education can be executed successfully in developing nations with limited resources. The guidelines for practice and illustrations from real classrooms are relevant for a range of educators around the world. One key to success is the programmes’ homegrown professional development approach featuring Rwandans teaching Rwandans, which builds capacity within the system. The professional development description encourages administrators and directors to establish such programmes which can successfully build capacity and sustainability within their schools.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2019.1578760

ISSN: 0300-4430, 1476-8275

Language: French

ISSN: 2019-4048

Language: English

ISSN: 0959-4108

Language: English

Language: English

ISSN: 0956-1382

Abstract/Notes: Malaysia is a country with approximately 53% Muslims. The rest of the population belong to different religions like Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Due to religious and ethnic pluralism and a cultural antagonism inside the society, the Muslims have been virtually forced to adopt alternative thinking and to make new experiments in order to keep in line with the Chinese. Malaysia is, in an Islamic context, an interesting country. In the rural areas where the Malay population is in majority, syncre tic religious practices such as Muslim Shamanism, magic and healing are still common.1 Urban areas, on the other hand, are marked by a more intellectual approach towards Islam, due partially to the great number of Muslim students who pursue their post-graduate studies overseas. The Chinese form the economically strongest group in Malaysia, and have thus tended to be in control of the private schools with the highest intellectual levels. The establishment of private schools is growing and competition is strong to get students. Many Malays from the upper strata of society have therefore sent their children to schools run by Chinese...

Language: English

ISSN: 0578-8072

Language: English

ISSN: 1054-0040

Abstract/Notes: Il contributo prende le mosse dalla proposta di una ‘filosofia dell’infanzia’, avanzata negli anni Ottanta del Novecento da Matthew Lipman e Gareth Matthews. In questa concezione l’infanzia dovrebbe essere considerata come una dimensione dell’esperienza umana (e, quindi, non solo come una fase evolutiva) da esplorare con indagini filosofiche autonome. Collocandosi in questa cornice, l’articolo argomenta che persino nella conoscenza scientifica (che sembra essere l’impresa solo adulta par excellence) si dovrebbe riconoscere il ruolo del modo di pensare e conoscere tipico dei bambini. Ciò favorirebbe quel passaggio dalla razionalità alla ragionevolezza che Stephen Toulmin invoca al fine di edificare una nuova cosmopoli, superando i fallimenti della modernità cartesiana. Nella scia di alcune nozioni di Dewey e Merleau-Ponty si delinea l’idea di una epistemologia child-centred e se ne chiarisce il significato per gli scenari attuali. / The paper takes its cue from the proposal of a ‘philosophy of childhood’, put forward in the 1980s by Matthew Lipman and Gareth Matthews. In this view, ‘childhood’ should be considered as a dimension of human experience (and, therefore, more than just a developmental phase) which should be explored through autonomous philosophical inquiries. Against this backdrop, the paper argues that even in scientific knowledge (which seems to be the ‘adults only’ enterprise par excellence) the role of the way of thinking and knowing typical of childhood should be recognized. This would foster that switch from rationality to reasonableness to which Stephen Toulmin has appealed in order to build a new cosmopolis, overcoming the failures of the Cartesian modernity. In the wake of some tenets of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty the idea of a child-centred epistemology is delineated and its significance for contemporary scenarios highlighted.

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.12897/01.00062

ISSN: 2240-9580

Abstract/Notes: summer workshops

Language: English

ISSN: 1470-8647