Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Rediscovered, Renewed
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Description
Editors: Nancy File, Jennifer J. Mueller, and Deborah Basler Wisneski.
Chapter 1, "Silent voices of knowing" in the history of early childhood education and curriculum, authored by Deborah Basler Wisneski, UNO faculty member.
Chapter 14, The place of play in early childhood curriculum, co-authored by Deborah Basler Wisneski, UNO faculty member.
Chapter 16, Strengthening curriculum in early childhood, co-authored by Deborah Basler Wisneski, UNO faculty member.
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed provides a critical examination of the sources, aims, and features of early childhood curricula. Providing a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and learning, this book will provoke discussion and analysis among all readers. How has theory been used to understand, develop, and critique curriculum? Whose perspectives are dominant and whose are ignored? How is diversity addressed? What values are explicit and implicit? The book first contextualizes the historical and research base of early childhood curriculum, and then turns to discussions of various schools of theory and philosophy that have served to support curriculum development in early childhood education. An examination of current curriculum frameworks is offered, both from the US and abroad, including discussion of the Project Approach, Creative Curriculum, Te Whāriki, and Reggio Emilia. Finally, the book closes with chapters that enlarge the topic to curriculum-being-enacted through play and that summarize key issues while pointing out future directions for the field. Offering a broad foundation for examining curriculum in early childhood, readers will emerge with a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies intersect with curriculum development.
ISBN
978-0415881111
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York, New York
Department
Teacher Education
Recommended Citation
File, N., Mueller, J. J., Wisneski, D. B., (2013). Curriculum in Early Childhood : Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed. New York, NY: Routledge.
Wisneski, D. B. (2013). "'Silent voices of knowing' in the history of early childhood education and curriculum." In N. File, J. Mueller, and D. Wisneski (Eds.), Curriculum in Early Childhood : Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed. New York, NY: Routledge.
Wisneski, D. B. and Reifel, S. (2013). "The place of play in early childhood curriculum." In N. File, J. Mueller, and D. Wisneski (Eds.), Curriculum in Early Childhood : Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed. New York, NY: Routledge.
File, N., Wisneski, D. B. and Mueller, J. J. (2013). "Strengthening curriculum in early childhood." In N. File, J. Mueller, and D. Wisneski (Eds.), Curriculum in Early Childhood : Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed. New York, NY: Routledge.