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From Fragmentation to Field Formation: The Early Childhood Policy in Higher Education Movement (104883)
Tuesday, 24 March 2026 14:30
Session: Poster Session 2
Room: Orion Hall (5F)
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
Early childhood systems worldwide face similar challenges — fragmented governance, insufficient workforce preparation, funding inequities, and limited higher-education capacity to prepare early childhood policy leaders. Within the United States, the Early Childhood Policy in Higher Education (ECPIHE) movement seeks to establish Early Childhood Policy as a coherent, recognized field of study, with shared curricula, faculty pipelines, and a coordinated network to support evidence-based decision-making and equity-oriented practice. This poster will introduce the ECPIHE framework — its rationale, structure, and ongoing efforts — and simultaneously invite international conference participants to contribute to a living, interactive world map of their countries’ early childhood policy landscapes. Attendees will be encouraged to “pin” their nation on the map and provide key data about governance, financing, workforce preparation, access, and policy challenges. The resulting global snapshot will form a foundation for comparative analysis and inform the co-creation of a cross-national “Comparative Early Childhood Policy” course. By combining a policy-field building narrative with a global participatory mapping exercise, the session aims to foster intercultural connections, spark collaborative research partnerships, and engage scholars from diverse contexts in building a shared international curriculum — advancing global citizenship, educational equity, and collective capacity to improve early childhood systems worldwide.
Authors:
Gail Joseph, University of Washington, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Gail Joseph is currently a Professor of Early Learning at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA
Connect on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gail-joseph-17319617
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