Perspectives and provocations in early childhood education

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive. Teachers of young children are asked to teach-to-the test in ways that take away opportunities for holistic, thoughtful, play-oriented practices that allow...

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Other Authors Vasquez, Vivian Maria (Editor), Wood, Jeffrey W. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
SeriesEarly childhood education assembly.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613342
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-339-2
Physical Description1 online resource (136 pages.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Early childhood education assembly book series
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introducing perspectives and provocations / Vivian Maria Vasquez, Jeffrey Wood, and Carol Branigan Felderman
  • Chapter 2. Mapping it out: Navigating the teacher's role in student-centered inquiry / Candace R. Kuby, Tara L. Gutshall, and Melanie Taylor Drury
  • Chapter 3. Transforming young children's engagement with literature: Process drama as pedagogy / Wayne Serebrin
  • Chapter 4
  • Authors as authorities: Prekindergarten writers find their audiences / Brian T. Kissel
  • Chapter 5. Stop bullying! Stick up! First graders talk and write about bullyingvkatie stover
  • Chapter 6. Gender issues in kindergartenvjeffrey wood
  • Chapter 7. Exploring identity through the use of photography / Laura Herring Darolia
  • Chapter 8. Exploring computers with 4b / Kristin Lupino
  • Chapter 9. Constructing the child at play: From the schooled child to technotoddlers and back again / Karen E. Wohlwend
  • Chapter 10. A tribute to donald graves: Reprinted from the early childhood education assembly news (volume 1, issue 2)
  • Appendix: Perspectives and provocations - elephants
  • About the editors.