Survey: Pandemic Effects on Early Childhood Education
Defending the Early Years is an organization whose stated mission “is to work for a just, equitable, and quality early childhood education for every young child, by informing educators, administrators, and parents about how children develop and learn best and advocating for the active, playful, experiential approaches to learning informed by child development theory and evidence-based research.”
DEY has done some valuable advocacy work around the issues of too-early academic instruction and the introduction of on-line pre-school (yes, that’s really a thing). This summer they conducted a survey looking at the effects of pandemic education, and they’ve just released the results.
Links to the survey were sent out through the organization’s social media accounts, so there is some self-selected tilt to the respondents, but since that tilt is likely to be toward people who care about early childhood education (and who have an internet connection), these results are still worth looking at.
The respondents are pretty evenly split between parents and teachers of children between 0 and 8 years. with a smaller group who are both.
A third of both parents and teachers were not working, with more than a third working full time CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Survey: Pandemic Effects on Early Childhood Education
Links to the survey were sent out through the organization’s social media accounts, so there is some self-selected tilt to the respondents, but since that tilt is likely to be toward people who care about early childhood education (and who have an internet connection), these results are still worth looking at.
The respondents are pretty evenly split between parents and teachers of children between 0 and 8 years. with a smaller group who are both.
A third of both parents and teachers were not working, with more than a third working full time CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Survey: Pandemic Effects on Early Childhood Education