This study examines the current system of support for information-intensive education in early childhood education as provided by local offices of education, and suggests crucial initial steps toward developing responsible information-intensive educat...
This study examines the current system of support for information-intensive education in early childhood education as provided by local offices of education, and suggests crucial initial steps toward developing responsible information-intensive education. After reviewing the literature on early childhood information-intensive education requirements, local office of education personnel and early childhood personnel were interviewed in order to address the following questions: 1) What financial support is provided by the local offices of education for information-intensive education? 2) What are the training requirements for teachers under the present system? 3) How many representative information-intensive kindergartens are there? Interview findings are: 1) The support of the ministry of education & human resources for the information-intensive education has not yet been planned. Only local offices of education support the information-intensive education financially. 2) Information-intensive education teacher training requirements are insufficient. For example, three local offices have no information-intensive education teacher training plans in place. 3) There are very few representative information-intensive education kindergartens. Those few which do exist developed the kind of teaching methods required for sound early childhood information-intensive education through CD-roms and the internet.