Thinking Critically About Environments For Young Children

Author : Lisa P. Kuh
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773085
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Critically About Environments for Young Children written by Lisa P. Kuh and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children. There are copious examples from practice, lessons learned, and illustrations and photographs of key aspects of the environments they discuss. Organized into three parts, this essential text addresses: Aesthetics, politics, and space configurations in school environments for young children. Outdoor spaces, beginning with intentionally designed playscapes, children’s gardens, and spontaneous improvisational play venues. The role of environments outside school, including informal learning environments that promote science knowledge, museum spaces, and virtual environments. “Through rich examples and clear explanations of the historical, political, and aesthetic dimensions of design, [Kuh and her colleagues] help us think critically about environments and provide theoretical and practical tools to support our efforts.” —Benjamin Mardell, professor, Early Childhood Education, Lesley University. “An enlightening book that gives educators new lenses for thinking about and creating the kinds of places that can optimize children’s growth and learning, especially in this era of standardization. Educators need this book!” —Nancy Carlsson-Paige, professor emerita, Lesley University “For everyone who wants to take educational settings beyond minimal standards, this collection is a thoughtful and inspiring guide.” —Louise Chawla, professor, Environmental Design Program, University of Colorado, Boulder

Author : Patrick J. M. Costello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134103344
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Skills and Early Childhood Education written by Patrick J. M. Costello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a rationale for the popular idea among teachers and researchers that young children should be taught critical thinking and argument in the early years of their education.

Author : Robert Fisher
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748794416
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Children to Think written by Robert Fisher and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses key areas including emotional intelligence, cognitive acceleration, and the use of ICT in teaching thinking.

Author : Louise Derman-Sparks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938113574
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves written by Louise Derman-Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.

Author : Lisa B. Fiore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000293912
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessment of Young Children written by Lisa B. Fiore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era where assessment mandates tend to minimize or dismiss individual differences and creativity, resulting in punitive outcomes or inertia, this essential guide provides teachers with a collaborative approach to assessment that emphasizes the importance of bringing children and families into the process. Now in its second edition, Assessment of Young Children explores both standardized and authentic assessment, work sampling systems, and observation skills. Fully updated with current standards and research, this new edition also features an enhanced focus on trauma-informed practices, culturally and linguistically diverse learners, and family involvement. Lively and engaging, chapters help readers cultivate developmentally appropriate practice, create appropriate expectations, examine and celebrate children’s work, interact in groups, and improve their reflective teaching. Accounts of real experiences from children, families, teachers, and administrators provide on-the-ground models of assessment strategies and demonstrate how children are affected. Exploring a variety of ways to observe and assess young children in their natural environments, this critical volume encourages an assessment strategy where the child remains the focus and collaboration with children, families, and colleagues creates an image – not a diagnosis – of the child that is empowering rather than constraining.

Author : Sandra Feinberg
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838907368
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Environments for Young Children written by Sandra Feinberg and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vision of Learning Environments for Young Children: Rethinking Library Spaces and Services is about learning, families, and community, where the public library presents a community-based educational setting in which librarians serve as educators, guides, coaches, and facilitators of lifelong, active learning; access for children to enriching, satisfying, and developmentally appropriate resources and learning opportunities; diverse collections, programs, and technical resources for young children and the adults in their lives; programs and resources that encourage children's focused participation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, and problem solving; and a nonjudgmental, integrated, and interdisciplinary approach to lifelong learning, developing the whole person, child or adult. Included in Learning Environments for Young Children are field-tested measuring instruments that you and your staff can use to conduct a qualitative assessment of your library's children's services. These ready-to-use forms will help you collect information that will highlight the importance of early childhood services in presentations to funding sources, trustees, and other key stakeholders.

Author : Jean Mercer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483370100
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Critically About Child Development written by Jean Mercer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the updated Third Edition of Thinking Critically About Child Development, previously titled Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, Jean Mercer offers 59 essays that confront popular misconceptions and fallacies about the field. Intriguing vignettes and critical thinking questions frame each essay, encouraging readers to think like social scientists and become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. Timely topics and DSM-5 references make the book an engaging supplement for both chronologically and topically arranged child development texts.

Author : Donna Couchenour
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506353177
Total Pages : 3481 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Contemporary Early Childhood Education written by Donna Couchenour and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 3481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general public often views early childhood education as either simply “babysitting” or as preparation for later learning. Of course, both viewpoints are simplistic. Deep understanding of child development, best educational practices based on development, emergent curriculum, cultural competence and applications of family systems are necessary for high-quality early education. Highly effective early childhood education is rare in that it requires collaboration and transitions among a variety of systems for children from birth through eight years of age. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Contemporary Early Childhood Education presents in three comprehensive volumes advanced research, accurate practical applications of research, historical foundations and key facts from the field of contemporary early childhood education. Through approximately 425 entries, this work includes all areas of child development – physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional, aesthetic – as well as comprehensive review of best educational practices with young children, effective preparation for early childhood professionals and policy making practices, and addresses such questions as: · How is the field of early childhood education defined? · What are the roots of this field of study? · How is the history of early childhood education similar to yet different from the study of public education? · What are the major influences on understandings of best practices in early childhood education?

Author : Di Chilvers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927251287
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating and Thinking Critically in Early Years written by Di Chilvers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looks in depth at what is meant by 'creating and thinking critically', the developmental jtheory behind it and how it links to good practice. It unpicks each aspect of creating and thinking critically in terms of what it means and how it can be observed and developed in practice"--Page 6.

Author : Rebecca T. Isbell
Publisher : Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0876592566
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Learning Environments that Work written by Rebecca T. Isbell and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that the early care and education environment is a vital contribution to children's learning, this book examines the early childhood learning environment with the vision of making it a place where young children will be physically, emotionally, esthetically, and intellectually nurtured. The chapters are: (1) "The Power of the Environment and Its Impact on Children"; (2) "Contemporary Childcare Spaces"; (3) "The Teacher's New Role: Designer"; (4) "Principles of Meaningful Environments"; (5) "Aspects of Quality Environments for Children"; (6) "Assessing What You Have"; (7) "Making a Plan That Works for You"; (8) "The Designer's Toolbox"; (9) "Enriching the Environment," including ideas for using displays, planning work and sitting spaces, and growing plants; and (10)"Extending Your Understanding," including classic resources about early childhood environments. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations and photographs to assist teachers in setting up a classroom. The book's 10 appendices include an inventory form, equipment checklist, team inventory, storage ideas, and an anthropometric chart for a child-scaled environment. (Contains 79 references.) (KB)