CULTURAL THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
PART 3: EDUCATIONAL ISSUES
This chapter will go on with the 8th question, which was the following: Which cultural
theoretical orientations are formed by the principal theories in early childhood education?
(Figure 1 and Appendices.) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this topic together give the full
answer to the eighth question.
In addition to what has been said about the theoretical orientations, the author points out
the importance of connections of non-pedagogical theories to the education phenomenon.
Also these theories comprise educational issues, which have connections to the pedagogical
systems, like the concepts of knowledge, the teacher, the child, the teacher-child
interrelationships, the motivation to learn and many other things.
Still, in addition to the earlier questions, a set of more exact questions about educational
issues will be directed at the non-pedagogical theories and at the cultural orientation of the
same theories:
1. What is the concept of knowledge in the theory?
2. What is the concept of the teacher in the theory?
3. What is the concept of the child in the theory?
4. What is the understanding of the teacher-child interrelationship in the theory?
5. What is the motivation-creating factor in the theory?
6. What else is there to consider about the theory?
On the basis of the phenomenon of education several other important criteria can be
proposed, for instance, pushing off the “General systems model of early childhood education
and preschool thinking” (figure 11), but the limitations have been shown previously. The
results are presented as small footnotes to different theories that can be seen in appendices
(p. 36–40).