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Understanding Research in Early Childhood Education: Quantitative
and Qualitative Methods prepares readers to be informed consumers
of early childhood research. Rather than following the traditional
format of covering quantitative and qualitative methods separately,
this innovative textbook offers side-by-side coverage and
comparison about the assumptions, questions, purposes and methods
for each, offering unique perspectives for understanding young
children and early care and education programs. Understanding
Research in Early Childhood Education is broadly based across the
major research paradigms, and numerous examples are offered
throughout the text. Through the use of this book, students will be
able to more knowledgeably read, evaluate, and use empirical
literature. These skills are becoming more important as early
childhood educators are increasingly expected to use evidence-based
research in practice and to participate in collecting and analyzing
data to inform their teaching.
Understanding Research in Early Childhood Education: Quantitative
and Qualitative Methods prepares readers to be informed consumers
of early childhood research. Rather than following the traditional
format of covering quantitative and qualitative methods separately,
this innovative textbook offers side-by-side coverage and
comparison about the assumptions, questions, purposes and methods
for each, offering unique perspectives for understanding young
children and early care and education programs. Understanding
Research in Early Childhood Education is broadly based across the
major research paradigms, and numerous examples are offered
throughout the text. Through the use of this book, students will be
able to more knowledgeably read, evaluate, and use empirical
literature. These skills are becoming more important as early
childhood educators are increasingly expected to use evidence-based
research in practice and to participate in collecting and analyzing
data to inform their teaching.
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed,
Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims, and
approaches in early childhood curricula. Designed to provide a
theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and
learning in the early years, this fully updated and timely second
edition provokes discussion and analysis among all readers. What
influences operate (both historically and currently) to impact what
happens in young children's classrooms? Whose perspectives are
dominant and whose are ignored? What values are explicit and
implicit? Each chapter gives readers a starting point for
re-examining key topics, encourages a rich exchange of ideas in the
university classroom, and provides a valuable resource for
professionals. This second edition has been fully revised to
reflect the current complexities and tensions inherent in
curricular decision-making and features attention to policy,
standardization, play, and diversity, providing readers with
historical context, current theories, and new perspectives for the
field. Curriculum in Early Childhood Education is essential reading
for those seeking to examine curriculum in early childhood and
develop a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies
intersect with the issues that accompany the creation and
implementation of learning experiences.
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed,
Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims, and
approaches in early childhood curricula. Designed to provide a
theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and
learning in the early years, this fully updated and timely second
edition provokes discussion and analysis among all readers. What
influences operate (both historically and currently) to impact what
happens in young children's classrooms? Whose perspectives are
dominant and whose are ignored? What values are explicit and
implicit? Each chapter gives readers a starting point for
re-examining key topics, encourages a rich exchange of ideas in the
university classroom, and provides a valuable resource for
professionals. This second edition has been fully revised to
reflect the current complexities and tensions inherent in
curricular decision-making and features attention to policy,
standardization, play, and diversity, providing readers with
historical context, current theories, and new perspectives for the
field. Curriculum in Early Childhood Education is essential reading
for those seeking to examine curriculum in early childhood and
develop a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies
intersect with the issues that accompany the creation and
implementation of learning experiences.
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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