Levelling the playing field in ECEC
Results from TALIS Starting Strong 2018
The provision of high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is widely
seen as a strategy to promote a more equitable and inclusive society due to its potential
to give all children, and especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, a strong
basis for early development and well-being. This requires approaches that address
the needs of the increasingly diverse populations of children participating in ECEC.
A first step in this direction is to assess the prevalence of different dimensions
of diversity (e.g., socio-economic disadvantage, special education needs, different
first language, and refugee status) across ECEC centres, and the extent to which the
quality of ECEC varies between more and less diverse centres. This working paper uses
data from the TALIS Starting Strong 2018 survey to examine these questions in the
nine participating countries, and to derive policy pointers to ensure that ECEC systems
promote equity and inclusion in response to the diversity of children’s needs.
Available from November 20, 2023
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