ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to describe the efforts of three Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, and Dominican Republic) to develop their own early childhood teacher preparation standards. The authors explain the demographic and historical environmental conditions, the sociopolitical climate that gave impetus to the development of the standards, the existing teacher preparation systems, and their underlying processes and structures, the underlying beliefs implicit in the development of the standards, and the process of development of the early childhood teacher preparation standards. These countries vary in size, population, and history. As a result, they are in different stages of the process of full implementation of these standards. The article comparatively analyzes the facilitators for the development of the standards and the challenges which these countries encountered in their design and implementation.

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提升拉丁美洲的职业：三个国家的幼儿教师准备标准

摘要 本文的目的是描述三个拉丁美洲国家（智利、哥伦比亚和多米尼加共和国）为制定自己的幼儿教师准备标准所做的努力。作者解释了人口和历史环境条件、推动标准制定的社会政治气候、现有的教师准备系统及其基本过程和结构、标准制定中隐含的基本信念，以及过程幼儿教师准备标准的制定。这些国家的面积、人口和历史各不相同。因此，他们正处于全面实施这些标准的不同阶段。