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Product Description: "Teacher Preparation" initiates the "Yearbook in Early Childhood Education Series". This volume is designed to explore the issues that face the field regarding the nature of early childhood practice, the preparation of practitioners, and the need to address these areas as the field prepares for the future...read more

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Product Description: Modern curriculum study in the United States, though only a century old, is an essential component of education at all levels. Within the last decade alone, multiculturalism, technology, family systems and developmentally appropriate practices have moved awareness of curriculum issues from schools of education onto legislative agendas and into the front pages of newspapers...read more

Product Description: Professional child care services have become an increasingly important component of early childhood education. Both centre-based care and family day care have come a long way from the day nurseries of the 19th century, with acceptance of and demand for organised child care increasing rapidly...read more

Product Description: This book is a result of conversations with early childhood educators and teacher trainers in different national and cultural settings. The aim was to establish what drives the practice of preparing adults to work with young children with the focus on the 'professional' educator...read more

Product Description: As classrooms have become more culturally and linguistically diversified, the theories and methods of teaching reading to young children have changed. Early childhood educators must explore new methods of instruction in order to involve and expand the language abilities of young children and must provide engaging activities that will create more competent readers and writers...read more

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Product Description: This latest volume in the "Yearbook in Early Childhood Education" comes at an opportune time for early childhood educators. As more and more "exceptional" young children are being placed in mainstream settings, there is an increasing need for all early childhood educators, not just special educators, to be playing a new role in the education of young at-risk or disabled children...read more

The volume editors of this work cast an eye towards the future, where US schools and society will be increasingly populated by racially and ethnically diverse groups, more so than any other period in the country's history. Rachel Grant examines the practices and methods in the teaching of second language learners. Fred Genesee and Elena Nicoladis discuss bilingualism in preschool children. S. Jim Campos describes and analyses a preschool programme for Latino children. Celia Genishi and Margaret Borrego Brainard review the ways in which the language capacities of bilingual children are tested by teachers and institutions. Howard L. Smith and Paul E. Heckman look at a playground fight which becomes emblematic of the clashes between Spanish-dominant and English-dominant children. George P. Knight, Martha E. Bernal and Gustavo Carlo compare and contrast socialisation and individual behaviour among Mexican-American children. Francisco A. Villarruel, David R. Imig and Marjorie J. Kostelnick look at different family structures in culturally diverse families and their impact on children. Karen Shu-Minutoli also looks at the family: the characteristics, styles, and support needed in care of disabled, diverse children. Patricia A. Edwards, Kathleen L. Fear and Margaret A. Gallego examine parents' roles in the pursuit of fair education for their children, and how they can affect curriculum. In the last two chapters, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek discuss teacher preparation in early childhood education programmes for diverse chilren, and in conclusion, summarise the challenges that face us regarding the issue of linguistic and cultural diversity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Featuring contributions from those well known in early childhood evaluation, this volume addresses issues related to assessment, such as who does it and what purposes are served. It includes chapters on evaluating child care and preschools, and early childhood programmes.

Product Description: Some educators feel that children's cognitive styles should be taken into account when learning activities are planned for them. The term cognitive styles refers to one's personal style, and describes an individual's mode of understanding, thinking, remembering, judging, and solving problems; in short, how he or she responds to and makes sense of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Play has been part of early childhood programs since the initial kindergarten developed by Friedreich Froebel more than one hundred and fifty years ago. While research shows that most teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume describes and evaluates particular early childhood educational research methodologies, including: historical research; research using standardized tests; qualitative research; observational research; ethology; longitudinal research; teacher research; and meta-analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume on literacy in early childhood education covers topics such as: teachers' roles in promoting literacy-related play; hypermediating literacy activity; creating opportunities for discourse; bridging home and school literacy; and engaging children in the appropriation of literacy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is divided into 12 chapters including: developmental play theories and children's social pretend play; developments in young children's mathematical reasoning; learning and teaching with computers in early childhood education; and early childhood social studies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented. In essence this will provide a glimpse of the intellectual base of early childhood education in many parts of the worl...read more

Contents: Emergence of Families, Communities, and Schools in Early Childhood Education: Introduction, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Challenges and Realities: Family-Community-School Partnership, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Families and Early Childhood Education Through the Years, Bernard Spodek and Olivia N. Saracho. Young Children Experiencing Divorce and Family Transitions: How Early Childhood Professionals Can Help, Marion F. Ehrenberg, Jacqueline E. Bush, Jennifer D. Pringle, Marei Luedemann, and Jennifer Geisretter. Family context and psychological development in early childhood: Educational implications, Enrique B. Arranz Freijo. Parenting Self-Efficacy and Competence in Relation to Young Children's Social and Academic Outcomes, Priscilla K. Coleman and Katherine H. Karraker. Emotion Regulation: Implications For Children's School Readiness and Achievement, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker and Ashley L. Hill."