The Effects of Early Childhood Education Crisis on Thailand’s Future
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https://doi.org/10.14456/jecem.2019.7Keywords:
early childhood crisis, early childhood circumstance, screen technology, positive disciplineAbstract
The fast-changing world with ever growing complex situations has provided impacts upon the family, the smallest social unit, and day care centers taking care of the children at an early age who are highly sensitive to the environment. The early age is very important to setting up the bedrock of life which enables an individual to grow up as a quality citizen of the nation. However, at present, it was found that for over last ten years, the circumstances for early age children have not been further improved. The main problems concern sanitation, improper nurture, weak family institution, deviated academic principles of education providers, and distorted conceptual framework of society against child development principles. Numerous government departments representing ministries have put great efforts to improve the situations; nevertheless, there have been four crises worsening the conditions i.e. 1) hastening the literacy skills which encroaches time and opportunity for holistic child development, 2) no building up disciplines including ignorance of training and lack of skills in creating positive disciplines, which lead to the loss of self-control and no responsibility for themselves and others causing social problems in the future, 3) enhancing the proficiency too heavily in the foreign language and then overlooking the significance of mother language, which the mother language is supposed to be used as a communication tool of the children to their surrounding circumstances, and a tool for their intelligence development, and 4) promoting the use of
screen technology improperly with being unaware that the mobiles and iPads have been used similarly as a baby-sitter. These have impacted the children development in all aspects. Therefore, the crises among the children in early age are the urgent matters needed to be resolved from the family to the national levels because the period of early age is very short; once it passes, it cannot be taken back.
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