Advances in Understanding Child Development and Learning: Through a Lens of Equity
This issue of Young Children highlights key child development concepts, such as agency and funds of knowledge, emphasizing the need to deepen our knowledge of child development and learning through a lens of equity.
In this article, I offer four mindset shifts that are needed, and I also share recommendations to consider as we in the field work together to make transformative change.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2022 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 18th year as an online journal.
In his teacher research, Ron Grady investigates how play can support and scaffold a favorite domain of so many early childhood professionals—language and literacy.
This article outlines how teachers can use storytelling, empathy, perspective taking, and community engagement to foster ethics learning in the classroom.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2021 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 17th year as an online journal.
مع توفر مجموعة واسعة من الخيارات المتزايدة في التعقيد فيما يخص تعليم الطفولة المبكرة نجد أن المعلمات والإداريات يقمن بصورة دائمة بعملية تقييم للنماذج والنُهج والمواد التي تدعم تعلم الأطفال وأكثرها نجاعة في ذلك
In his teacher research, Ron Grady investigates how play can support and scaffold a favorite domain of so many early childhood professionals—language and literacy.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2020 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 16th year as an online journal.
The most powerful learning I have gleaned from my work with the project approach is that when children learn to inquire, they are learning how to learn. They are empowered to ask questions and seek answers.
The more important truth is that it does not matter what we label Vivian Paley in the end if our goal is authenticity. It only matters that we disseminate her work to the next generation of early childhood teachers, so that they, too, may tame the classro
Vivian Paley’s contribution to the field of early childhood education and teacher education is certainly her approach to creating the space and opportunities for children to share their stories through storytelling and story acting, but it is much more.
Vivian’s desire to create space for stories, her ability to listen fully and her longing to elevate, illuminate and understand children’s play all continue to push me to be a better teacher.
Whenever I teach theories of child development, I always include Vivian Paley among the inductive theorists that early childhood teachers need to know.
Christopher’s work can help us replace a deficit view of difficulty with a more trusting approach to children as they work through the challenges that serve their current developmental and relationship growth (Madrid, Fernie, & Kantor 2015).
In their teacher research project, Diane, Keri, and Kelly collected evidence, analyzed video-recordings and transcripts, discovered their truths, and transformed their teaching.
Openness to learning navigates us to undertake more research which, especially when we apply teacher research, reveals even more how much more we have to learn.