Practical transformations and transformational practices globalization, postmodernism, and early childhood education /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ryan, Sharon, Grieshaber, Susan
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
• Σειρά: Advances in early education and day care ; v. 14.
• Θέματα: Early childhood education.; Teachers > Training of.; Multicultural education.; Postmodernism.; Pre-school & kindergarten.; Education > Curricula.; Education > Preschool & Kindergarten.

Both traditional and progressive curricula are inadequate for the task of responding to the economic, political, social, and cultural changes that have occurred as a result of globalization. This book documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction / Stuart Reife
• Transforming ideas and practices / Susan Grieshaber, Sharon Ryan
• Voices at the table: an analysis of collaboration in the policy process for a local preschool initiative / Lucinda G. Heimer
• (De) Centering the kindergarten prototype in the child-centered classroom / Elizabeth Graue
• Teaching notes / Felicity McArdle
• The amorphous pretend play curriculum: theorizing embodied synthetic multicultural props / Richard Johnson
• Implementing Te Whàriki / Jenny Ritchie
• Postcolonial theory and the practice of teacher education / Radhika Viruru
• Becoming early childhood teachers: linking action research and postmodern theory in a language and literacy course / Celia Genishi, Shin-ying Huang, Tamara Glupczynski
• Putting postmodern theories into practice in early childhood teacher education / Jennifer Sumsion
• Challenging the culture of expertise: moving beyond training the always, already failing early childhood educator / Sue Novinger, Leigh O'Brien, Lou Sweigman
• Improvisation: postmodern play for early childhood teachers / Carrie Lobman.