I presented “The Impact of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Australia” at the webinar series by The Oceania Chapter of the System Dynamics Society on 23rd of August 2023. This presentation shows the preliminary results of a modelling effort about a long-term analysis of ECEC’s impact on the education system and the labour market.
Impact of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Australia
Abstract
The importance of quality ECEC cannot be overstated, and understanding its implications on our education system and economy is crucial in shaping the future of our children and society.
While evidence supports the role of quality ECEC on child development and school success, and subsequently on contribution to the labour market, the latest published statistics by ABS show that less than 45% of Australian children aged 0-4 years attend formal care.
The outcome of the ECEC system in Australia has mainly been evaluated in terms of its early impact on children based on the Australian version of the Early Development Instrument (AvEDI) (and then on the schooling outcomes).
Systems-level interventions are required to facilitate pathways to ECEC given the current growing trends in overseas immigration and increasing costs of ECEC in Australia.
In this webinar, a system dynamics simulation modelling effort was presented; this model is developed in the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre to investigate the impact of ECEC dynamics on Australian schooling performance, tertiary education, and the labour market over time.
Keywords
Early childhood education and care (ECEC), labour market, education system, system dynamics, Australia
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