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The distance travelled: the movement of an innovative early childhood approach from North Italy to China via the USA

Nyland, B and Nyland, C 2005, 'The distance travelled: the movement of an innovative early childhood approach from North Italy to China via the USA ', Global Social Policy, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 281-301.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: Journal Articles

Title The distance travelled: the movement of an innovative early childhood approach from North Italy to China via the USA
Author(s) Nyland, B
Nyland, C
Year 2005
Journal name Global Social Policy
Volume number 5
Issue number 3
Start page 281
End page 301
Total pages 20
Publisher Sage Publications
Abstract In this article we examine an education project designed to improve the well-being of babies in China's welfare homes. The project is a product of the Chinese Government's decision to marketize its social policy, adopt a mixed funding model and globalize its adoption regime. It involves the movement of education ideas developed in Reggio Emilia in Italy to promote the rights of children across global boundaries and a Chinese-American partnership that draws on these ideas to support child development in the context of the global adoption market. An example of one of these programmes is utilized to illustrate the changes that have occurred in the ideas transported to China. We argue that China should not rely on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to provide for the basic human needs of its most vulnerable citizens and that in the process of travelling from Italy to China the social justice element in the educational ideas of Reggio Emilia have been lost in translation.
Subject Social Policy
Copyright notice Global Social Policy Copyright © 2005
ISSN 1468-0181
 
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