1. Family and Early Childhood Education
As an early childhood teacher, our role is to become conscious of how our attitudes and action are culturally-based so that we can work together effectively with families to keep children successful in their culture. ... Examples in Japan of unmarked, culturally implicit beliefs and practices include mimamoru (watching and waiting) there are strategies that allow teachers to hold back before intervening children's fight. Another example is the teacher ratio, 30 students to 1 teacher ratio is a marked and explicit feature of Japanese early childhood education, the pedagogical goals and...
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