Purpose of Accreditation ECE ; Is it for rating grade of institutions or improving quality of them?
EUNJUNG WON(a*), VINA ADRIANI(b)
a) Korea National Open University
No 86, DeaHakro, Dongsungdong, Seoul, Korea, 03087
*praisewon[at]gmail.com
b) Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Jl.Dr.Setiabudhi No.229, Bandung,40154, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Abstract
Since 2002, the number of institutions for Early Childhood Education(ECE) in Indonesia has rapidly expanded in quantity. However, those increase in quantity does not guarantee an improvement in the quality of ECE institutions. There are various kinds of ECE institutions in Indonesia, such as kindergarten, day care school, community preschool, religious schools and so on. Moreover Indonesia is a vast country with many islands, many races, and many cultures. So, the quality differentials of Indonesias ECE institutions also varies, such as the size of school and operation of the institutions and programs are also diverse. In order to evaluate and improve the quality of those various ECE institutions, Indonesian government had launched a government-affiliated organization that is National Association of Accreditation for ECE and non-formal education in 2006. However, there are many voices on the site of an ECE institutes that they do not know how to prepare for accreditation due to lack of information on accreditation. For improvement of quality ECE institutions, this paper is argued that training and guides for institutions should be preceded the implementation of accreditation so that they can improve quality themselves.
Keywords: ACCREDITATION, ECE, QUALITY OF EDUCATION
Topic: Access, Participation and Quality of Early Childhood Education