Voices of Early Childhood Educators (Childhood Studies) - Softcover

Bernheimer, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433130602 ISBN 13: 9781433130601

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Voices of Early Childhood Educators presents powerful, living stories of early childhood students and practitioners. Susan Bernheimer clearly shows the importance of their stories for understanding the challenges now facing our field, including valuable insights into new forms of resilience and development. Bernheimer invites college students and their instructors into an eye-opening journey with early childhood professionals today.

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About the Author

Susan Bernheimer is an educator, researcher, and trainer on contemporary issues in early childhood education, and formerly a member of the Human Development faculty at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California. Dr. Bernheimer taught early childhood teacher preparation to impoverished college students for over ten years. She is the author of New Possibilities for Early Childhood Education: Stories from our Nontraditional Students (Lang, 2003).

Review

«Through personal stories about diversity, marginality, injustice, and resilience, we are drawn into the complex lives of those who work with young children. This book is a model of what it means to learn and teach from a position of deep respect for the lived experiences of those around us.» (Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University)
«Voices of Early Childhood Educators should be required reading for all student teachers, not only those who are bound to work with diverse learners and families but perhaps even more importantly, those (few) who still live in relatively homogenous neighborhoods or towns...unaware the demographics of the world are changing.» (Ailie Cleghorn, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada)
«This is a heartwarming and wise book. It deserves attention from all teacher educators.» (Margie Carter, Co-author, Training Teachers:
A Harvest of Theory and Practice)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1433130602
• ISBN 13: 9781433130601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 133