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Title Major trends and issues in early childhood education : challenges, controversies, and insights / edited by Joan Packer Isenberg, Mary Renck Jalongo ; foreword by Sue Bredekamp
Edition Second edition
Published New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description xiii, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Series Early childhood education series
Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction 1 -- -- PART I Child and Family Issues 11 -- -- Chapter 1 -- Development Issues Affecting Children 13 -- C. Stephen White and Joan Packer Isenberg -- -- Chapter 2 -- Young Children's Affirmation of Differences: Curriculum That Is -- Multicultural and Developmentally Appropriate 30 -- Edwina Battle Void -- -- Chapter 3 -- Perspectives on Inclusion in Early Childhood Education 47 -- Doris Bergen -- -- Chapter 4 -- Working with Families of Young Children 69 -- Kevin J. Swick -- -- PART II Curricular Trends and Issues Affecting Practice 81 -- -- Chapter 5 -- Developmental Appropriateness: New Contexts and Challenges 85 -- Shirley C. Raines and John M. Johnston -- -- Chapter 6 -- Assessing and Reporting Young Children's Progress: -- A Review of the Issues 97 -- Sue C. Wortham -- -- -- -- -- Chapter 7 -- Shaking the Very Foundations of Emergent Literacy: -- Book Reading Versus Phonemic Awareness 114 -- Lea M. McGee -- -- Chapter 8 -- Sensitivity to the Social and Cultural Contexts of -- the Play of Young Children 126 -- Fergus Hughes -- -- Chapter 9 -- Educational Technology in the Early and Primary Years 136 -- Sudha Swaminathan and June L. Wright -- -- PART III Policy and Professional Development Issues 151 -- -- Chapter 10 -- Counting the Cost of Caring: Intended and Unintended -- Consequences of Early Childhood Policies 153 -- Frances O'Connell Rust -- -- Chapter 11 -- Global Education: Why and When to Teach It? 164 -- Louise Boyle Swiniarski -- -- Chapter 12 -- The Professional and Social Status of the Early -- Childhood Educator 177 -- Doris Pronin Fromberg -- -- Epilogue 193 -- About the Editors and the Contributors 195 -- Index 201
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Early childhood education -- United States.
Child development -- United States.
Curriculum planning -- United States.
Early childhood educators -- Training of -- United States.
Author Jalongo, Mary Renck.
Isenberg, Joan P., 1941-
LC no. 2002040927
ISBN 0807743518 cloth alkaline paper
080774350X paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Major trends and issues in early childhood education : challenges, controversies, and insights (2nd ed.)