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This chapter relates the UNCRC, particularly the child’s right to education, to the ECEC policies in the Latin American countries. It shows the complexity and interdependence of legal frameworks and policies, financial mechanisms and intersectoral collaborations that are being activated through the child’s right to education. The author justifies why the child’s rights to education must include the child’s right to ECEC. This is followed by argumentative explanations on how legal frameworks and policies must be developed in order to safeguard children’s access to ECEC services in the region. However, existing ECEC services, in which some of the children are enrolled, do not represent good enough quality. Random and inadequate pedagogical offers anchored in low qualifications and competences of the ECEC staff characterise the main elements of low-quality services. The author points at the necessity of intersectoral collaboration where both legal frameworks and polices, financial mechanism together with teacher education and research supporting existing ECEC settings, need to work together in order to safeguard children’s access to high quality ECEC services, and thus the implementation of the UNCRC. |
