id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ger-348	Faas, Stefan; Wu, Shu-chen; Geiger, Steffen	The importance of play in early childhood education: A critical perspective on current policies and practices in Germany and Hong Kong	2017	17	.pdf	application/pdf	10522	653	50	Keywords Early childhood education, importance of play, international reform movement, cultural comparison Introduction Under the influence of globalization, education systems—from early childhood education to higher education—have been under enormous pressure to reform. In the following years, extensive reforms took place in the field of German early childhood education, which were linked to various international reform movements: (1) Content area curricula was implemented in all 16 federal states in Germany in kindergarten focusing on language and literacy, mathematics, and natural sciences, in addition to social learning.	cache/ger-348.pdf	txt/ger-348.txt