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Direct linkNancy File Ed.; Nancy E. Barbour Ed.; Andrew J. Stremmel Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
Designed to spark an interchange of ideas, this book presents early childhood education as a nuanced, shifting, and complex field. Readers will bear witness to several decades of the lived experiences of influential leaders engaged in conversation about seven major topics: systems of early care and education, diversity and children's rights,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Preschool Curriculum, Play
Hayes, Nóirín, Ed.; Walsh, Thomas, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2022
This edited book explores the origins and evolution of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) system on the island of Ireland since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. While the book acknowledges and celebrates the role of parents in caring for and educating their young children within the home, the key focus is on the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Ruth Swanwick; Daniel Fobi; Yaw Offei; Alexander Oppong – Oxford University Press, 2024
This book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the early education and care of young deaf children, and the support of their caregivers. The authors investigate what it takes to facilitate deaf children's progress through early childhood, focusing on…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sociocultural Patterns, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Download full textMark Nagasawa, Editor; Cristina Medellin-Paz, Editor; Helen Frazier, Contributor; Virginia Dearani, Contributor; Charis-Ann Sole, Contributor; M. Nalani Mattox-Primacio, Contributor; Shin Ae Han, Contributor; Soyoung Park, Contributor; Sunmin Lee, Contributor; Nnenna Odim, Contributor; Jennifer Keys Adair, Contributor; Angie Zapata, Contributor; Mary Adu-Gyamfi, Contributor; Adrianna González Ybarra, Contributor; Seung Eun McDevitt, Contributor; Louella Sween, Contributor; Vanessa Rodriguez, Contributor – Bank Street College of Education, 2024
Issue 51 of the Bank Street Occasional Papers Series "Reconceptualizing Quality Early Care and Education with Equity at the Center" is a response to Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss, and Alan Pence's 25-year interrogation of the concept of quality in early childhood education (ECE) (Dahlberg et al., 1999, 2013, 2023). Their groundbreaking…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Equal Education, Teaching Methods
Nesrin Ozturk, Editor – IntechOpen, 2025
"Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Education and Care" delves into the dynamic landscape of early childhood education and critically addresses the intersection of theory and practice, offering a range of theoretical frameworks and practical strategies to support the holistic development of children. It explores a diverse array of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Modern History, Intersectionality
Sykes, Maurice, Ed.; Ostendorf, Kyra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Join the authors of this book in starting a movement of hope and possibility for an antiracist child care and early childhood education system. This volume disrupts mental models regarding where the work of early care and education began--with enslaved African women--and how the stigma of that beginning relegates present-day child care workers to…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Racism, Child Caregivers
Foundation for Child Development, 2022
This conversation guide is the second companion piece to the Foundation for Child Development's "Getting it Right: Using Implementation Research to Improve Outcomes in Early Care and Education" (ED606115) and "Getting it Right: The Conversation Guide for Preparing the Next Generation of Implementation Researchers" (ED615900)…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Foundation for Child Development, 2021
In 2020, the Foundation for Child Development released "Getting it Right: Using Implementation Research to Improve Outcomes in Early Care and Education." The publication provides insights into the value of including implementation research in the study of early care and education (ECE) and its potential to improve programs and policies…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Program Implementation
Boyd, Wendy, Ed.; Garvis, Susanne, Ed. – Springer, 2021
This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
de la Rosa, Olga María Alegre, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2021
This book reviews literature and research linked to early childhood education and care (ECEC). This educational level is fundamental for acquiring key competencies for school entry and establishing the physical, cognitive, and emotional bases for lifelong learning. Preschool education should promote student autonomy as the ability of a child to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Preschool Education, Personal Autonomy
Biesta, Gert; Heugh, Kathleen; Cervinkova, Hana; Rasinski, Lotar; Osborne, Sam; Forde, Deirdre; Wrench, Alison; Carter, Jenni; Säfström, Carl Anders; Soong, Hannah; O'Keeffe, Suzanne; Paige, Kathryn; Rigney, Lester-Irabinna; O'Toole, Leah; Hattam, Robert; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Correlation, Neoliberalism
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2020
In January 2020, the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED) embarked on the 2020 election project, releasing monthly Solutions Briefs that have been updated to address the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and are compiled in this Compendium. The objective is to analyze the most important business and economic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Tach, Laura, Ed.; Dunifon, Rachel, Ed.; Miller, Douglas, Ed. – APA Books, 2020
All children deserve the best possible future. But in this era of increasing economic and social inequality, more and more children are being denied their fair chance at life. This book examines the impact of inequality on children's health and education, and offers a blueprint for addressing the impact of inequality among children in economic,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Social Differences, Stress Variables
Boldt, Gail, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2019
Much of the policy-and practice-focused research on infant-toddler care and education has been concerned with the issue of program quality. That is, what elements constitute a quality program for infants and toddlers that ensures their ongoing developmental success? Researchers have sought to identify the structural and process indicators…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Infants, Toddlers, Early Childhood Education
Goffin, Stacie G., Ed.; Bornfreund, Laura, Ed. – New America, 2020
"Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators--A Compendium" is the culmination of an 18-month blog series that engaged diverse viewpoints about disentangling early childhood education's (ECE) long-standing thorny knot which is comprised of three of its most challenging issues: preparation and education, compensation and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Academic Degrees, Higher Education
