Pub Date : 2024-03-17DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2327422
Stefanie Horner, Gisela Kammermeyer
The present study focused on the differential effects of two German PD programs in the ECEC field. We examined whether PD programs are equally effective for all ECEC professionals or whether ECEC p...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2327424
Alfredo Bautista, Kate E. Williams, Kerry Lee, Siu-Ping Ng
Self-regulation is arguably one of the most crucial predictors of school readiness, academic achievement, and lifelong well-being. While educators in the prior-to-school years have a pivotal role t...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-09DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2325355
Maria Fusaro, Tuka Almamori
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for higher education institutions to take a holistic approach to early childhood teacher preparation, which includes fostering students’ social connection...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2314290
Jenna M. Weglarz-Ward, Maryssa Kucskar Mitsch, Jessica M Branch, Melissa Yarczower, Cyndy Anang
Families are critical to children’s learning and play a vital role on their children’s team. As such, preparation standards across the Division for Early Childhood, National Association for the Edu...
家庭对儿童的学习至关重要,并在儿童团队中发挥着重要作用。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2302914
Bridget A. Walsh, Kere Hughes-Belding, Laura Nathans, Kalli B. Decker, Carla A. Peterson, L. Roggman, M. Innocenti, Gina A. Cook, Hyun-Joo Jeon, Patricia H. Manz, Tricia Woodliff
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2024.2304047
Yeji Kim, Jiyoung Kang
Merely juxtaposing the accelerating number of undocumented migrant children and their distinctive struggles is an inadequate approach to educational scholarship of early childhood teachers working ...
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As the application of authentic assessment (AA) in early childhood education (ECE) programs is emerging, the demand for professionals who understand the fundamental elements of AA and can incorpora...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2023.2262742
Patricia M. Cooper, Erin M. Casey
ABSTRACTProfessional literature in human development, social foundations, and academic subject area courses function as a major but understudied tool of teacher preparation programs. Through the overlapping lenses of sociocultural and critical theories of child development, this study employs descriptive content analysis to investigate the potential of common course texts to foster early childhood teachers’ proleptical identities as practitioners of democratic education. Findings suggest NAEYC’s influential texts on anti-bias education, as well as popular texts in child development, children’s literature, and social studies, insufficiently address the democratic goal of fully inclusive classrooms. The presentation of same-sex parent families serves as an exemplar of the problem. Implications for teacher education are discussed.KEYWORDS: democracydemocratic educationearly childhood educationteacher preparationanti-bias educationsocial studiessame-sex parent families Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2023.2257147
Tina Bonnett, Elizabeth Gould, Courtney Gratton, Sumera Malik, Jenna Zinck
ABSTRACTChildhood psychological trauma is currently gleaning attention in many fields of study. Subsequently, Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) is becoming integral to many organizations that service children and families. A gap, however, is noted in literature between this approach to practice and pre-service early years professionals who study to work in care and education settings as either early childhood educators or teachers. Furthermore TIP, using Self-Study (SS) methodology, is deficient in literature. Thus, a Self-Study was enacted by four pre-service early years professionals, in their fourth and final year of their degree, to investigate their preparedness to employ TIP in their work post-graduation. A Critical Friend, versed in this topic, engaged in this study as this is habitual to SS methodology. Findings of this research convey that TIP is covertly addressed in course content, indicating that this area of pedagogy requires more explicit attention in pre-service curriculum. Outcomes of this study also illuminate the urgency for early years professionals to address their own adverse experiences so that they are situated to cultivate attuned and responsive trauma-informed climates in their pedagogical practice. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the n/a [n/a].
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/10901027.2023.2257145
Marilyn Chu, Verónica N. Vélez, Daisy Padilla Torres
ABSTRACTThis study highlights a critical case that can serve as a programmatic and conceptual model for institutional partnerships seeking to diversify the early childhood education (ECE) teaching profession with “homegrown” Latinx teachers. The case study explored the experiences of Latinx students in an ECE program at a regional, public 4-year university who participated in a Grow Your Own (GYO) program at their high schools and/or local community college. The student-centered qualitative case study addressed: What obstacles have GYO Latinx teacher candidates experienced as they transferred to a 4-year university teacher education program? What can we learn about how they made sense of and responded to these challenges for improving the way in which early childhood teacher education programs might extend and transform GYO initiatives at the university level to support the retention and continued success of Latinx teacher candidates? Using a combination of interviews and focus groups, and Latinx Critical Theory, this study demonstrated that once at the university, GYO Latinx students struggled with increased financial strain, entrance requirements into teacher education, and commuting. Stressed across the interviews was the importance of building a critical learning community, in which relationships could be nurtured in culturally sustaining and place-based ways. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Pseudonym.2. We acknowledge that this article comes at a time when the label “Latino” and “Chicano” is being challenged to better reflect.intersectional identities, particularly gender fluid and gender non-conforming individuals. We have seen various iterations of theterm, including (but not limited to) Latinx and Latinx/a/o. We applaud these efforts and recognize the need to (re)imagine our language to reflect intersectional experiences. Yet, we also want to make sure we do so in a way that centers those that will be most affected by the change in representative labels. We have decided to use Latinx here but do so cautiously as we continue to wrestle with how best to represent the complexity of experiences within this multifaceted ethno-racial community.3. We use color-evasive in lieu of color-blind, the more traditional term for this ideology to (a) problematize an assumption that equates blindness with ignorance that inaccurately conveys and distorts the unique way blind individuals interact with the world; and, (b) rethink and remove ableist language as core to our explicit efforts toward social justice in all aspects of our work, particularly in research and scholarship (Annamma, Jackson, & Morrison, Citation2017).4. DACA is an administrative relief that protects eligible immigrants who came to the United States when they were children from deportation. DACA gives undocumented immigrants: 1) protection from deportation, and 2) a work permit. The program requires that the DACA status and work
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