Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1. Curriculum and Research: What Are the Gaps We Ought to Mind, Redux Nancy File 2. Public Policy and Early Childhood Curriculum in the United States Christopher P. Brown & David P. Barry 3. Standards, Correlations, and Questions: Examining the Impact of The Accountability Regime on Early Childhood Curriculum Jennifer J. Mueller & Nancy File 4. From Theory to Curriculum: Developmental Theory and Its Relationship to Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education J. Amos Hatch 5. The Curriculum Theory Lens on Early Childhood: Moving Thought into Action Jennifer J. Mueller & Kristin L. Whyte 6. Engaging with Critical Theories and the Early Childhood Curriculum Mindy Blaise & Sharon Ryan 7. Infant-Toddler Curriculum: Reconsider, Refresh, and Reinforce Diane M. Horm, Kyong-Ah Kwon, & Deborah E. Laurin 8. Unpacking the Tensions in Open-Ended Preschool Curriculum: Teacher Agency, Standardization and English Learners in Creative Curriculum and High/Scope Sara Michael-Luna, Lucinda G. Heimer & Leslee Grey 9. Re-examining Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum John A. Sutterby & Deepti Kharod 10. A Story about Story: The Promise of Multilingual Children and Teachers and a Framework for Integrated Curriculum Elizabeth P. Quintero 11. Changing the Discourse: The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Cary A. Buzzelli 12. Countering the Essentialized Discourse of Curriculum: Opening Spaces for Complicated Conversations Andrew J. Stremmel, James P. Burns, Christine Nganga & Katherine Bertolini 13. A Vision of Early Childhood Curriculum Built on Strong Foundations Katherine K. Delaney, Kristin L. Whyte, & M. Elizabeth Graue 14. Reclaiming and Rediscovering in Early Childhood Curriculum: Possibility and Promise Nancy File & Jennifer J. Mueller

AUTORE

Jennifer J. Mueller is Dean of the School of Education at St. Cloud State University, USA. Nancy File is Kellner Professor of Early Childhood Education at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138103016
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 0.80 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 232
• Pagine Romane: xii