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Education

Examine the history of provision for 0-5 year olds in Britain showing how the foundation stage has emerged and discuss its strengths and weaknesses.
Early year’s education, in Britain has traditionally been child centred, emphasizing the child's individual interests and experiences along with integrated learning (for exam-ple, the three ‘R’s) and free play. Historically, there has been very little government intervention in pre-school provision, however, in order to improve the quality and in-crease the standards of early childhood establishments government intervention has amplified considerably. As recently, the government has introduced a framework for an early year’s...

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