Racially Equitable Teaching is a call to action for early childhood professionals dedicated to closing the achievement gap. Using a critical race theory lens, the book presents outcomes that exist among current professional development paradigms, ideology and public education, specifically looking at how racial ideologies are used as tools to maintain the over-empowerment and privileging of Whites. Beyond theory, Racially Equitable Teaching provides practical classroom applications for teachers and administrators in an effort to move towards racial authenticity, racial balance,...

Racially Equitable Teaching is a call to action for early childhood professionals dedicated to closing the achievement gap. Using a critical race theory lens, the book presents outcomes that exist among current professional development paradigms, ideology and public education, specifically looking at how racial ideologies are used as tools to maintain the over-empowerment and privileging of Whites. Beyond theory, Racially Equitable Teaching provides practical classroom applications for teachers and administrators in an effort to move towards racial authenticity, racial balance,...

The Globe s Emigrating Children describes one teacher s experiences teaching twenty-four immigrant students during their first year in the United States. From diverse places including Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Mexico, El Salvador, and Haiti, these children brought their many languages and cultures to a first grade sheltered English classroom in a large urban school district. Kathleen A. Stark s thoughts and conversations with her students and her struggles to address each of the children s emotional and learning needs while guiding them to recognize and question the assumptions of...

Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys and the girls worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher s official discourses and the children s unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children s voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school...

Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys and the girls worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher s official discourses and the children s unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children s voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school...

The Subject of Childhood is a collection of essays on early childhood education/childhood studies that brings critical psychological, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies perspectives to bear on understanding the lives children live. Central concerns running through these essays are the emergence of subjectivity in the child; the complexity of conceptualizing the relationship between external cultural and social forces; and the internal sense of agency that we know that each child possesses. Together, the volume is a blending of interdisciplinary theoretical writing, personal...

Understanding the Preschooler discusses some of the important aspects of social development in preschoolers as they go from the home environment into the school environment. Theoretical, observational, and anecdotal perspectives are integrated to offer connections between the youngsters' actions and reactions to different situations, as well as why and how they learn from these situations. The transition from home to preschool is not easy for them, but this book aids adults in understanding how youngsters make that transition.