Major Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education: Challenges, Controversies, and Insights (Early Childhood Education Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080774350X ISBN 13: 9780807743508

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2003

Synopsis

This revised and updated edition provides essential social, historical, and philosophical perspectives in the field of early childhood education. Leading scholars and practitioners examine a variety of today’s most significant and challenging subjects, including child development research, play, program models, assessment, diversity, inclusion, public policy, and advocacy.

New for the Second Edition!

• Definitions and metaphors for the major terms―trends, issues, controversies, and challenges―that serve as the organizational structure for the book.
• A chapter delineating the issues on emergent literacy development, such as emergent literacy versus reading readiness, reading aloud versus phonemic awareness, and print skills versus books.
• An easy-to-use three-part organization―Child and Family Issues, Curricular Trends and Issues Affecting Practice, and Policy and Professional Development Issues.

About this title

From the Author:

Joan Packer Isenberg is Professor of Education and Director of the Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning Program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and Mary Renck Jalongo is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and editor-in-chief of Early Childhood Education Journal.

About the Author:

Mary Renck Jalongo is a teacher, writer and editor. As a classroom teacher, she taught preschool, first grade and second grade, worked with children and families of migrant farm workers, and taught in the laboratory preschool at the University of Toledo. Currently she is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she earned the university-wide award for outstanding teaching and is the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction. As a writer, Dr. Jalongo has authored and edited more than 25 books, many of them textbooks in the field of early childhood education, such as Early Childhood Language Arts (4th ed. Allyn & Bacon) and Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning (4th ed. Merrill/Prentice Hall), Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd ed., Merrill/Prentice Hall) and Major Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education: Challenges, Controversies, and Insights (2nd ed. Teachers College Press). Recent publications include the second edition of a book for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Young Children and Picture Books; a Teachers College Press book, Planning for Learning: Collaborative Approaches to Lesson Design and Review; and an edited book for the Association for Childhood Education International, The Worlda (TM)s Children and Their Companion Animals: Developmental and Educational Significance of the Child/Pet Bond. Additionally, she has earned three national awards for excellence in writing and numerous teaching awards. Dr. Jalongo has been the editor-in-chief of the Springer international publication, Early Childhood Education Journal, for twelve years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 080774350X
• ISBN 13: 9780807743508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Isenberg Joan, Jalongo Mary Renck