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This powerful edited collection disrupts the deficit-oriented
discourses that currently frame the field of early childhood
education (ECE) and illuminates avenues for critique and
opportunities for change. Researchers from across the globe offer
their insight and expertise in challenging the logic within ECE
that often frames children and their families through gaps, risks,
and deficits across such issues as poverty, language, developmental
psychology, teaching, and learning. Chapters propose practical
responses to these manufactured crises and advocate for democratic
practices and policies that enable ECE programs to build on the
wealth of cultural and personal knowledge children and families
bring to the early learning process. Moving beyond a dependence on
deficits, this book offers opportunities for scholars, researchers,
and students to consider their practices in early education and
develop their understanding of what it means to be an educator who
seeks to support all children.
This powerful edited collection disrupts the deficit-oriented
discourses that currently frame the field of early childhood
education (ECE) and illuminates avenues for critique and
opportunities for change. Researchers from across the globe offer
their insight and expertise in challenging the logic within ECE
that often frames children and their families through gaps, risks,
and deficits across such issues as poverty, language, developmental
psychology, teaching, and learning. Chapters propose practical
responses to these manufactured crises and advocate for democratic
practices and policies that enable ECE programs to build on the
wealth of cultural and personal knowledge children and families
bring to the early learning process. Moving beyond a dependence on
deficits, this book offers opportunities for scholars, researchers,
and students to consider their practices in early education and
develop their understanding of what it means to be an educator who
seeks to support all children.
Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of
SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including
SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat
the reproduction cheats alone is well worth reading.
Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of
SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including
SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat
the reproduction cheats alone is well worth reading.
With its real-life stories and invitations for reflection and
conversation, this book is an ideal professional development
resource for pre- and in-service birth–age 3 professionals. The
author shares lived experiences of being in four distinctly
different baby rooms as a researcher over extended periods of time.
She frames each life story around elements of well-being and asks
readers to consider whether and how environmental and relational
factors supported or hindered the physical, psychological, and
emotional well-being of the children and adults. The author
encourages readers to see themselves in the stories, to consider
how they may have acted in the circumstances described, and to
deliberate on their own practices and beliefs. With empathy and
respect, McMullen fully conveys an intent to elevate, celebrate,
and honor those who spend their days in infant toddler care and
education, while examining the critical role all adults in society
play in the lives of our youngest citizens.Book Features: Invites
personal reflection and discussion with colleagues in the form of
prompts and questions after each story. Provides a friendly but
scholarly look at the spaces, conditions, and quality of
birth-to-age three settings, the area of fastest growing need in
early childhood care and education (ECCE). Focuses on the
well-being of the adults and children featured in the book,
providing a holistic perspective on their needs, motivations, and
experiences. Emphasizes a here-and-now perspective in contrast to
books that tend to focus primarily on preparing children for future
outcomes and accomplishments.
With its real-life stories and invitations for reflection and
conversation, this book is an ideal professional development
resource for pre- and in-service birth-age 3 professionals. The
author shares lived experiences of being in four distinctly
different baby rooms as a researcher over extended periods of time.
She frames each life story around elements of well-being and asks
readers to consider whether and how environmental and relational
factors supported or hindered the physical, psychological, and
emotional well-being of the children and adults. The author
encourages readers to see themselves in the stories, to consider
how they may have acted in the circumstances described, and to
deliberate on their own practices and beliefs. With empathy and
respect, McMullen fully conveys an intent to elevate, celebrate,
and honor those who spend their days in infant toddler care and
education, while examining the critical role all adults in society
play in the lives of our youngest citizens.Book Features: Invites
personal reflection and discussion with colleagues in the form of
prompts and questions after each story. Provides a friendly but
scholarly look at the spaces, conditions, and quality of
birth-to-age three settings, the area of fastest growing need in
early childhood care and education (ECCE). Focuses on the
well-being of the adults and children featured in the book,
providing a holistic perspective on their needs, motivations, and
experiences. Emphasizes a here-and-now perspective in contrast to
books that tend to focus primarily on preparing children for future
outcomes and accomplishments.
Kindergarten has changed. Many believe that it no longer reflects a
nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children
to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement
tests that they will take continuously throughout their time in
school. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about,
why it must change, and how all stakeholders in the early childhood
and elementary school communities must take part in the reform
process. The author draws on his own research to consider how the
Kinder-Race might be reimagined through more democratic principles
of schooling. Brown offers both practical and political strategies
that can alter the day-to-day practices of the kindergarten
classroom and the policies that currently define PreK–12
education in the United States. This resource will help readers see
kindergarten as an educational environment that expands the
learning of every child.Book Features: Provides an in-depth glimpse
into a typical day in the Kinder-Race. Examines how kindergarten
devolved from a garden that nurtures children into a race that
dashes them from skill to skill. Brings together what are often
siloed conversations among stakeholder groups. Highlights how
kindergarten is now primarily defined through an economic lens and
how this framing of learning, earning, and consuming might be
rethought. Employs varied conceptual frameworks to
investigate how stakeholders across different levels of public
education make sense of the changed kindergarten. Illuminates the
complexity of what is occurring in today's kindergarten
and puts forward practical and achievable ideas for change.
Kindergarten has changed. Many believe that it no longer reflects a
nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children
to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement
tests that they will take continuously throughout their time in
school. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about,
why it must change, and how all stakeholders in the early childhood
and elementary school communities must take part in the reform
process. The author draws on his own research to consider how the
Kinder-Race might be reimagined through more democratic principles
of schooling. Brown offers both practical and political strategies
that can alter the day-to-day practices of the kindergarten
classroom and the policies that currently define PreK-12 education
in the United States. This resource will help readers see
kindergarten as an educational environment that expands the
learning of every child.Book Features: Provides an in-depth glimpse
into a typical day in the Kinder-Race. Examines how kindergarten
devolved from a garden that nurtures children into a race that
dashes them from skill to skill. Brings together what are often
siloed conversations among stakeholder groups. Highlights how
kindergarten is now primarily defined through an economic lens and
how this framing of learning, earning, and consuming might be
rethought. Employs varied conceptual frameworks to investigate how
stakeholders across different levels of public education make sense
of the changed kindergarten. Illuminates the complexity of what is
occurring in today's kindergarten and puts forward practical and
achievable ideas for change.
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