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The Name of Our Profession is...
January 28, 2008
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But three decades of changes have not moved our profession closer to agreeing on our name. So today we are launching with our Exchange Insta-Poll an initiative to move toward nomenclature consensus. We invite you to tell us what you believe the proper name for our profession should be in today's Exchange Insta-Poll.
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Comments (16)
Displaying 5 of 16 Comments [ View all ]Klemmer
kITCHENER, ont, Canada
i AM PROUD TO USE THE TITLE early childhood educator As that denotes all children 0-8 years of age
Ready Set Grow
Chelsea, AL, United States
If you believe that all people/entities provide the same level of care, I can see why you would even broach this subject. All the names you mentioned are still appropriate names. In my opinion there is still different levels of care provided. I would not want to have have one name that is all encompassing.
United States
Within the Seventh-day Adventist education system, we have chosen the name Early Childhood Education and Care to describe the services we provide to families of young children. We use the term Early Childhood Programs to decribe the facilities.
UC Early Learning Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States
We consider ourselves to be:
Early Childhood Educators
Early Childhood Specialists
Early Childhood Teachers
depending on the position you hold. However, I think Early Childhood Educators sums up all of them.
OMEP-USNC
Washington, DC, United States
Many early childhood professionals have debated and discussed the nomenclature issue in past years. Keep in mind that naming is never a band-aid stuck on a field of endeavor. The name emerges from the characteristics and contents of the field it seeks to summarize in a few words. We have two tasks:
1. create a broad working group that will negotiate a name, such as early childhood care and education (ECCE) per the OECD reports called Starting Strong.
2. complaining nicely when reporters, writers and policymakers use the terms from ancient times, such as day care and family day care.
These tasks are a work in progress and working together among organizations in the U.S. and around the world will move us ahead to a new era.
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