Preschool education, otherwise known as Infant Education is
the provision of education for children before the commencement of
required normal statutory and curriculum based obligatory education.
In British English, nursery school or simply "nursery" or playgroup
is the usual term for preschool education, although the term preschool
is also commonly used. In the United States preschool and Pre-K are
used, while "nursery school" is an older term.
Preschool work is organized within a framework that professional
educators create. The framework includes structural (administration,
class size, teacher-child ratio, services, etc.), process (quality of
classroom environments, teacher-child interactions, etc), and alignment
(standards, curriculum, assessments) components that are associated with
each individual unique child that has both social and academic
outcomes. Arguably the first pre-school institution was opened in 1816
by Robert Owen in New Lanark, Scotland The
Hungarian countess Theresa Brunszvik followed in 1828. In 1837,
Friedrich Fröbel opened one in Germany, coining the term "kindergarten".
This type of education with another name as creche or kindergaten
is usually for children between the ages of zero or three and five,
depending on the jurisdiction and the statutory laws and educational
policies peculiar to each area.
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