Culturally Responsive Pre-school Education

Culturally Responsive Pre-school Education: Multicultural Malaysia on a Small Scale By Nordin Mamat. This book addresses the issue of multi-ethnic pre-school setting, offering early childhood education resource, covering subjects such as: culturally responsive pre-school education; presenting the theoretical and conceptual framework of multi-ethnic pre-school; children s social behaviour and how children relate to each other; and how the pre-school ethos nurtures children s behaviour and affected their relationships. This book provides a powerful argument on culturally responsive pre-school and constructed a model of an ecological study of a Malaysian multi-ethnic pre-school. Review of this book: Dr Mamat s timely work will be of interest to teachers and students and researchers of education, in Malaysia and world-wide. His in-depth and scholarly interpretation of the perspectives and views of children, teacher and parents on children s behaviour helps to shed light on how education systems respond to the needs of culturally diverse populations. Professor Geri Smyth, School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom.