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Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education : Implications for Policy and Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137485120
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 372.21
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1 A Cultural History of "Readiness" in Early Childhood Care and Education: Are There Still Culturally Relevant, Ethical -- CHAPTER 2 Ready for School? Lessons from a Sociohistorical Investigation into Mechanisms of Preparation and Classification of C -- CHAPTER 3 Something Isn't Right: Deconstructing Readiness with Parents, Teachers, and Children -- CHAPTER 4 The Early Development Instrument: A Bioecological View of School Readiness -- CHAPTER 5 "Daddy, Look At the Video I Made on My iPad!": Reconceptualizing "Readiness" in the Digital Age* -- CHAPTER 6 Cracking the Walls of the Education Matrix: Are you Ready to Educate Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students? -- CHAPTER 7 "Are You My Dawg?": Socially and Politically Marginalized Children Desiring to Be Seen and Valued by Their Teachers -- CHAPTER 8 Rethinking the Discourse of Readiness in Preschool -- CHAPTER 9 Transition to School: Times of Opportunity, Expectation, Aspiration, and Entitlement -- CHAPTER 10 "Who They Are and What They Have to Say Matters.......": How an Emergent Preschool Experience Shapes Children's Navi -- CHAPTER 11 Puffins, Butterflies, and Clouds in the Preschool: The Importance of Wonder -- CHAPTER 12 Juan, Melina, and Friends: Guides for Reconceptualizing Readiness -- CHAPTER 13 Inserting Postmodern Epistemological Perspectives into Discourse on Readiness: Privileging Assets, Capacity Buildin -- CHAPTER 14 Reimagining Possible Worlds for Young Children -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1 A Cultural History of "Readiness" in Early Childhood Care and Education: Are There Still Culturally Relevant, Ethical -- CHAPTER 2 Ready for School? Lessons from a Sociohistorical Investigation into Mechanisms of Preparation and Classification of C -- CHAPTER 3 Something Isn't Right: Deconstructing Readiness with Parents, Teachers, and Children -- CHAPTER 4 The Early Development Instrument: A Bioecological View of School Readiness -- CHAPTER 5 "Daddy, Look At the Video I Made on My iPad!": Reconceptualizing "Readiness" in the Digital Age* -- CHAPTER 6 Cracking the Walls of the Education Matrix: Are you Ready to Educate Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students? -- CHAPTER 7 "Are You My Dawg?": Socially and Politically Marginalized Children Desiring to Be Seen and Valued by Their Teachers -- CHAPTER 8 Rethinking the Discourse of Readiness in Preschool -- CHAPTER 9 Transition to School: Times of Opportunity, Expectation, Aspiration, and Entitlement -- CHAPTER 10 "Who They Are and What They Have to Say Matters.......": How an Emergent Preschool Experience Shapes Children's Navi -- CHAPTER 11 Puffins, Butterflies, and Clouds in the Preschool: The Importance of Wonder -- CHAPTER 12 Juan, Melina, and Friends: Guides for Reconceptualizing Readiness -- CHAPTER 13 Inserting Postmodern Epistemological Perspectives into Discourse on Readiness: Privileging Assets, Capacity Buildin -- CHAPTER 14 Reimagining Possible Worlds for Young Children -- Contributors -- Index.

This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.

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