Title: Reconceptualizing the early childhood curriculum : beginning the dialogue /
Authors: Kessler, Shirley A.; Swadener, Beth Blue
Publisher: Teachers College Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Early childhood education United States Curricula.; Early childhood education Philosophy United States.
Contents: Foreword / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing Curriculum -- I. Alternative Perspectives on Prevailing Theory and Practice. 1. Critical Perspectives on the Historical Relationship Between Child Development and Early Childhood Education Research / Marianne N. Bloch. 2. The Social Context of the Early Childhood Curriculum / Shirley A. Kessler. 3. The Impact of Context on the Play of Young Children / Nancy R. King. 4. Meanings of Readiness and the Kindergarten Experience / M. Elizabeth Graue -- II. Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Early Childhood Education. 5. Curricular Perspectives on One Great Debate / Susan Jungck and J. Dan Marshall. 6. Teachers, Autobiography, and Curriculum: Critical and Feminist Perspectives / Janet L. Miller. 7. Deconstructing the Discourse of Care: Young Children in the Shadows of Democracy / Valerie Polakow. 8. The Emergent Curriculum: Contextualizing a Feminist Perspective / Janice A. Jipson -- III. Issues of Cultural and Linguistic Pluralism. 9. Breaking Silences: Building New Stories of Classroom Life Through Teacher Transformation / Mary Louise Gomez. 10. The Politics of Early Bilingual Education / Lourdes Diaz Soto and Jocelynn L. Smrekar. 11. An African-American Early Childhood Education Program: Visions for Children / Janice E. Hale -- IV. Voices from the Field: Teacher Narratives and Collaborative Work. 12. Beyond Democracy to Consensus: Reflections on a Friends School Collaborative Ethnography / Beth Blue Swadener and Dorothy Piekielek. 13. Disturbances from the Field: Recovering the Voice of the Early Childhood Teacher / William Ayers. 14. Implementing Antibias Curriculum in the Kindergarten Classroom / Monica Miller Marsh.