Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Reexamined,
Rediscovered, Renewed provides a critical examination of the
sources, aims, and features of early childhood curricula. Providing
a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching
and learning, this book will provoke discussion and analysis among
all readers. How has theory been used to understand, develop, and
critique curriculum? Whose perspectives are dominant and whose are
ignored? How is diversity addressed? What values are explicit and
implicit?
The book first contextualizes the historical and research base of
early childhood curriculum, and then turns to discussions of
various schools of theory and philosophy that have served to
support curriculum development in early childhood education. An
examination of current curriculum frameworks is offered, both from
the US and abroad, including discussion of the Project Approach,
Creative Curriculum, Te Wh riki, and Reggio Emilia. Finally, the
book closes with chapters that enlarge the topic to
curriculum-being-enacted through play and that summarize key issues
while pointing out future directions for the field. Offering a
broad foundation for examining curriculum in early childhood,
readers will emerge with a stronger understanding of how theories
and philosophies intersect with curriculum development.
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