Children's education in the context of social change

Early childhood education has developed a specialised discourse to allow individuals within the profession to communicate effectively about all matters associated with the design and implementation of learning programs for children from birth to eight years. Early childhood education is changing rapidly due to the dynamic nature of positive and negative trends affecting the profession. This paper describes the early childhood education in the context of swiftly changing societal and global developments, Responding to the trend of increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in early childhood programs, not only in the Lombok-West Nusa Tenggara-Indonesia but in societies worldwide, requires teacher preparation programs to revise their content to reflect a culturally-sustaining mindset and provide practicum and field placements in a range of diverse settings. Early childhood teachers and administrators increasingly need the dispositions and skills-sets that encompass those of social workers to better respond to family diversity.