Early Childhood Education in the United States: Contemporary and Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367001384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 126 str.

Dinah Volk; Liz Brooker; Pamela Oberhuemer

Opis

This volume aims to generate conversations about developments in Early Childhood Education, situated within classist/racist/linguicist and neoliberal contexts, and to analyze critically where we are, where we might go and what we might do. It is also an opportunity to share counter-narratives to the dominant narratives promulgated by many, convinced that narrow, destructive norms of appropriate practice, standards, and accountability, as well as the curtailed achievement of children of color, those from low income communities, and emergent bilinguals are ‘common sense’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Early Years journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Join us in a ‘space of dialogue and human action’  1. Multiple pathways to whiteness: white teachers’ unsteady racial identities  2. Learning with immigrant children, families and communities: the imperative of early childhood teacher education  3. Creating supportive and subversive spaces as professional dyads enact culturally relevant teaching  4. Who gets to play? Access, popular media and participatory literacies  5. Latinx popular culture imaginaries: examining Puerto Rican children’s social discourses in interpreting telenovelas  6. Investing in high quality preschool: lessons from an urban setting  7. Pulling preK into a K-12 orbit: the evolution of preK in the age of standards