Research project The emergence of Early Childhood Education in Bangladesh - a comparative study
The aim of the project is to explore the emergence of Early Childhood Education in Bangladesh. The project also explores an interesting global pedagogical trend, where low-income countries such as Bangladesh, move from formal curriculum delivery to play-based learning trend, whereas Sweden goes in the opposite direction, from play-based to formal learning.
The project aims to explore the emergence of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Bangladesh through a comparative methodology. The emergence of ECE, the so-called Early Childhood Education Mainstreaming, is a transformative social phenomenon that involves social, cultural, and economic shifts and the thesis aims to explore phenomena visible in this transformation.
Through the compilation thesis, the project will partly explore an opposite global pedagogical trend, where low-income countries such as Bangladesh as part of South Asia, move from formal curriculum delivery to play-based learning and compare with the Swedish movements from play-based learning to more formal learning and curriculum delivery.
Furthermore, the thesis will explore the methodological challenges emerging in the meeting between two research disciplines, namely early childhood pedagogy and international and comparative studies, where the unique conditions of early childhood education in today's landscape is yet to find its’ place.
Project title: Exploring ‘Most Different Systems (MdS) principle’ through a comparison of Early Childhood Education in Sweden and Bangladesh
Project members
Project managers
Annica Källebo
PhD student
