While preschool programs are common in the United States and other developed countries, Simpson says they’re rare in African nations.
辛普森说,尽管学前教育在美国及其他发达国家很普遍,但对于非洲国家来说,还是很少见的。
“Often young children between zero and 3 years old, the health systems are keeping track of them and they’re doing vaccinations and things like that. And then, when they turn about 5 or 6, they enter into the school systems and the ministries of education take them over. But these in-between years, they’re not being cared for by the health ministries and they’re not yet being looked after by the education ministries in many cases,” she says.
她说:“通常0~3岁的幼儿由医疗保健体系来记录他们的健康与成长,负责给他们注射疫苗及相关的一些医疗卫生事宜。而当这些孩子们长到5~6岁,入学后就由教育部来负责他们的成长。然而对于处于这两个年龄段中间阶段的大部分孩子们来说,既享受不到医疗保健体系的福利,也不属于教育部的责任范畴。”
While preschool programs are common in the United States and other developed countries, Simpson says they’re rare in African nations.
辛普森说,尽管学前教育在美国及其他发达国家很普遍,但对于非洲国家来说,还是很少见的。
“Often young children between zero and 3 years old, the health systems are keeping track of them and they’re doing vaccinations and things like that. And then, when they turn about 5 or 6, they enter into the school systems and the ministries of education take them over. But these in-between years, they’re not being cared for by the health ministries and they’re not yet being looked after by the education ministries in many cases,” she says young students... positively from the beginning.