Abstract
Research on quality assurance (QA) over nurturing, caring and educating preschool children is an urgent and crucial issue, especially at private preschools. Using questionnaire survey methods, the study evaluates the situation of ensuring the quality of nurturing and educating children in private preschools regarding the following main aspects: establishing quality standards of child nurturing and education; building a quality assurance system and procedure for preschools’ childcare and education; financial and infrastructure conditions for QA activities to nurture and educate children; the community’s participation into private preschools’ activities; developing a culture of preschools’ childcare and education quality. The research significance lies in the implications from the results to improve QA of nurturing and educating children in private preschools in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Highlights
Preschool Education (PrE) receives meticulous attention from Vietnam’s Government with specific guidelines as an integral part of general education system, the basis of physical, intellectual, emotional, aesthetic, and personality development of preschool children
The questionnaire aiming to investigate the situation of assuring quality of childcare and education at preschools consists of 21 questions, divided into the following sections: 1) Defining quality standards for preschools’ childcare and education (04 items); 2) Developing the quality assurance system (5 items); 3) Developing the quality assurance procedure (03 items); 4) Financial and infrastructure conditions for assuring quality of childcare and education (03 items); 5) Community’s participation in preschools’ activities (03 items); 6) Developing culture for preschools’ childcare and education quality (03 items)
The Linkert scale is used to design the questionnaire with 5 levels: Very good, good, fair, medium, and weak to evaluate the situation of assuring quality of childcare and preschool education at the selected private preschools
Summary
Preschool Education (PrE) receives meticulous attention from Vietnam’s Government with specific guidelines as an integral part of general education system, the basis of physical, intellectual, emotional, aesthetic, and personality development of preschool children. It is responsibility of all levels of governments, all fields, all families and the whole society to foster Preschool Education development, guaranteeing the opportunities to access high-quality, equal and fair nursery education of each and every child. The State is responsible for managing and developing PrE, establishing mechanism and policies to promote community’s participation and social mobilization to develop PrE (Prime Minister, 2018). Among the underlying causes of those achievements is the Ministry of Education and Training’s policies on PrE development in general and concerning quality assurance in particular (MoET, 2018)
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