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
Language arts (Early childhood)
Education > Schools > Levels > Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Pre-school and kindergarten.
Early childhood care and education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806614424
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-967-5
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 Vasquez and Jeffrey Wood
  • Chapter 2. Locating themes and trends of early childhood education in language arts / Laurie Katz, Caitlin L. Ryan, Melissa I. Wilson, and Detra Price-Dennis
  • Chapter 3. Negotiating critical literacies: Toward full inclusion in early childhood classrooms / Mariana Souto-Manning and Carol Branigan Felderman
  • Chapter 4. Recursos y prácticas culturales: Reframing writing as a social practice with puerto rican children / Carmen L. Medina, María del Rocío Costa, and Nayda Soto
  • Chapter 5. How-to exercise playful power: Young children write their worlds / María Paula Ghiso
  • Chapter 6. Learning from artistic encounters: A teacher's experience with young children's paintings of racial bus segregation / Candace R. Kuby
  • Chapter 7. Transactional literary theory in a diverse school setting: An examination of book-making with first graders in a pre-service teacher education literacy course / Erin T. Miller
  • Chapter 8. Playing star wars under the (teacher's) radar: Detecting kindergartners' action texts and embodied literacies / Karen Wohlwend
  • Appendix: Perspectives and provocations: Elephants.

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