2nd Edition

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed

Edited By Jennifer J. Mueller, Nancy File Copyright 2020
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more

1. Curriculum and Research: What Are the Gaps We Ought to Mind, Redux

Nancy File

2. Public Policy and Early Childhood Curriculum in the United States

Christopher P. Brown & David P. Barry

3. Standards, Correlations, and Questions: Examining the Impact of The Accountability Regime on Early Childhood Curriculum

Jennifer J. Mueller & Nancy File

4. From Theory to Curriculum: Developmental Theory and Its Relationship to Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education

J. Amos Hatch

5. The Curriculum Theory Lens on Early Childhood: Moving Thought into Action

Jennifer J. Mueller & Kristin L. Whyte

6. Engaging with Critical Theories and the Early Childhood Curriculum

Mindy Blaise & Sharon Ryan

7. Infant-Toddler Curriculum: Reconsider, Refresh, and Reinforce

Diane M. Horm, Kyong-Ah Kwon, & Deborah E. Laurin

8. Unpacking the Tensions in Open-Ended Preschool Curriculum: Teacher Agency, Standardization and English Learners in Creative Curriculum and High/Scope

Sara Michael-Luna, Lucinda G. Heimer & Leslee Grey

9. Re-examining Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum

John A. Sutterby & Deepti Kharod

10. A Story about Story: The Promise of Multilingual Children and Teachers and a Framework for Integrated Curriculum

Elizabeth P. Quintero

11. Changing the Discourse: The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education

Cary A. Buzzelli

12. Countering the Essentialized Discourse of Curriculum: Opening Spaces for Complicated Conversations

Andrew J. Stremmel, James P. Burns, Christine Nganga & Katherine Bertolini

13. A Vision of Early Childhood Curriculum Built on Strong Foundations

Katherine K. Delaney, Kristin L. Whyte, & M. Elizabeth Graue

14. Reclaiming and Rediscovering in Early Childhood Curriculum: Possibility and Promise

Nancy File & Jennifer J. Mueller

Biography

Jennifer J. Mueller is Dean of the School of Education at St. Cloud State University, USA.

Nancy File is Kellner Professor of Early Childhood Education at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.