Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed

ISBN-13: 9781138103016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Jennifer Mueller; Nancy File

Opis

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Reexamined, Reclaimed, Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims and approaches in early childhood curricula.

Spis treści

1. Curriculum and Research: What Are the Gaps We Ought to Mind, Redux  2. Public Policy and Early Childhood Curriculum in the United States  3. Standards, Correlations, and Questions: Examining the Impact of The Accountability Regime on Early Childhood Curriculum  4. From Theory to Curriculum: Developmental Theory and Its Relationship to Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education 5. The Curriculum Theory Lens on Early Childhood: Moving Thought into Action  6. Engaging with Critical Theories and the Early Childhood Curriculum  7. Infant-Toddler Curriculum: Reconsider, Refresh, and Reinforce  8. Unpacking the Tensions in Open-Ended Preschool Curriculum: Teacher Agency, Standardization and English Learners in Creative Curriculum and High/Scope  9. Re-examining Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum  10. A Story about Story: The Promise of Multilingual Children and Teachers and a Framework for Integrated Curriculum  11. Changing the Discourse: The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education  12. Countering the Essentialized Discourse of Curriculum: Opening Spaces for Complicated Conversations  13. A Vision of Early Childhood Curriculum Built on Strong Foundations  14. Reclaiming and Rediscovering in Early Childhood Curriculum: Possibility and Promise