Early Childhood Education in Social and Political Transitions

The Legacy of the Open Society Foundations Step by Step Program

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvSarah Klaus,Jan Peeters,Tatjana Vonta

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This open access book is about the successes and challenges of the institutions and individuals who transformed early child education in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CEE) and Eurasia in response to the political transitions to democracy in the 1990’s. Through new interviews and unpublished reports, the book gives voice to committed practitioners, researchers and policymakers who are developing inspiring services for and with young children and their families, including children who live in very difficult circumstances. They work with children affected by war, refugee families with young children, children who live in poverty, children of minorities, and children with disabilities and developmental delays. The voices of these pedagogues, experts and NGO leaders, who were supported by the Open Society Foundations Early Childhood Program, bring inspiring messages to those in the field of early childhood seeking to promote democratic values and social inclusion. The book traces the extension of programs to Africa and Asia and explores how strategies used to transform early childhood education following the political and social transformations in Europe and Eurasia can inform responsive reforms and innovations in early childhood education today and in the future.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Open Society Foundation (OSF).

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-22
Mått150 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350257856

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Sarah Klaus is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development, USA, and an independent Advisor and Consultant to foundations, international agencies and NGOs. Jan Peeters is a Senior Researcher and Consultant, based in Belgium, working with Innovations in the Early Years and Fair Start Stories, the European Commission and UNICEF, including in Eastern European countries. Tatjana Vonta, now retired, was Senior Researcher and Head of the Step by Step Centre at the Educational Research Institute, an Associate Professor at the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

PrefaceForeword Introduction: Building Democracy Through Early Childhood EducationPart I: Why Invest in Early Childhood During a Political Transformation Process Towards Democracy?1. ‘Everything was Planned’: Early Childhood Education in Former Socialist Countries before and during their Transition 2. ‘It Was Just a Magic Time’: Investing in Early Childhood to Build Democratic SocietiesPart II: Inventing a Democratic Pedagogy3. ‘Who Says We Can’t Change the World?’: Implementing the Step by Step Program 4. ‘The Teachers Believed in Us’: How Teachers, Parents and Children Experienced the Programs 5. ‘Slowly We are Getting There’: Creating Opportunities for Children Experiencing Exclusion 6. ‘Don’t Think That it Won’t Happen’: Young Children in Times of WarPart III: Extending and Sustaining Democratic Pedagogy Through Civil Society Networks and Expansion to New Regions7. ‘The Seed Beneath the Snow’: The Growth of National and Regional Professional Early Childhood Networks8. ‘Surprised and Thrilled’: Rolling Out the ProgramsPart IV: Transforming Early Childhood Education Systems 9. ‘This is Yours’: Successful Transformations of Early Childhood Education SystemsConclusion10. ‘Systems Change When People Change’: Lessons Learned from Long-Term Investing in Early ChildhoodAnnexesAnnex 1. Biographies of Interviewees and Focus Group ParticipantsAnnex 2. Methodology: Oral History Interview and Desk Review of Evaluations, Reports and Documents

In the face of insurmountable obstacles generated by poverty in low democracy states this is a book that provides hope through a remarkable insight into how the Open Society contributed to global early childhood education (ECE). Over a period of three decades from the 1990s it follows the work of the Step by Step programme. The authors have captured how systemic support for ECE can help ameliorate inequality for young children. A must read for anyone wanting to see how sustainable change is possible.