Full Description
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims, and approaches in early childhood curricula.
Designed to provide a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and learning in the early years, this fully updated and timely second edition provokes discussion and analysis among all readers. What influences operate (both historically and currently) to impact what happens in young children's classrooms? Whose perspectives are dominant and whose are ignored? What values are explicit and implicit? Each chapter gives readers a starting point for re-examining key topics, encourages a rich exchange of ideas in the university classroom, and provides a valuable resource for professionals. This second edition has been fully revised to reflect the current complexities and tensions inherent in curricular decision-making and features attention to policy, standardization, play, and diversity, providing readers with historical context, current theories, and new perspectives for the field.
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education is essential reading for those seeking to examine curriculum in early childhood and develop a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies intersect with the issues that accompany the creation and implementation of learning experiences.
Contents
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
