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Tricia Giovacco-Johnson 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,37(2):127-135
This article describes an innovative practice in family involvement developed by one early care and education center engaged
in professional development. The Hopes and Dreams Project documented family involvement in children’s lives and education
through the pairing of pictures and narratives about their lives, histories, priorities, goals, and responsibilities with
the school community. Narrative inquiry was a powerful method for increasing understanding of complexity of family involvement.
Findings showed that families’ priorities in forming partnerships included the importance in belonging to the community, being
involved in their children’s lives and education, experiencing diversity, and experiences in childhood for children’s futures.
This research supports the importance of redefining family partnerships in early care and education in a manner that is inclusive
of family values and priorities. The implications are that early care and education providers have an important role in developing
and defining involvement practices that empower families and educate professionals. 相似文献
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Kevin James Swick 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):97-102
Caring is the core value that empowers families and early childhood professionals. This article articulates the meaning and
power of caring in the lives of children and families. It also explores family, professional, and community strategies for
creating caring and nurturing children and families. In particular, insights that show that caring is learned early and that
its impact is life long are discussed and applied to the early childhood professional’s identity. 相似文献
3.
Leah K. Wildenger Laura Lee McIntyre Barbara H. Fiese Tanya L. Eckert 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(1):69-74
Routines are an important feature of family life and functioning in families with young children. Common daily routines such
as dinnertime, bedtime, and waking activities are powerful organizers of family behavior and may be instrumental to children
and families during times of transition, such as elementary school entry. Daily routines were examined in 132 families with
children entering kindergarten. Although the majority of families reported regular daily routines for their children, parents
anticipated that their child’s daily routines would substantially shift upon kindergarten entry, including changes in children’s
sleep habits. Significant changes in child and family routines have been implicated in adjustment difficulties during kindergarten
transition. Results of this investigation are discussed in terms of aligning family daily routines with kindergarten expectations.
Furthermore, educational professionals in early childhood education and elementary school can partner with families to promote
seamless kindergarten transitions for all children. 相似文献
4.
MARILYN ESPE‐SHERWINDT 《Support for Learning》2008,23(3):136-143
In the 1990s, the developing field of early intervention with young children with disabilities and their families adopted family‐centred practice as its philosophical foundation. Family‐centred practice includes three key elements: (1) an emphasis on strengths, not deficits; (2) promoting family choice and control over desired resources; and (3) the development of a collaborative relationship between parents and professionals. During the last two decades, the field of early childhood disability has successfully defined the working principles of family‐centred practice for practitioners. Although research has acknowledged that the paradigm shift to family‐centred practice is neither simple nor easy, a substantive body of evidence demonstrates that (a) family‐centred practice can be linked to a wide range of demonstrated benefits for both children and families, and (b) families are more satisfied and find family‐centred practice to be more helpful than other models of practice. 相似文献
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Today’s families face many stressors during the early childhood years. Particular stressors like homelessness, violence, and chemical dependence, play havoc with the family system. Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological perspective offers an insightful lens for understanding and supporting families under stress. This article presents the key elements of Bronfenbrenner’s perspective and applies this perspective to strategies for effectively helping families under stress. 相似文献
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Every interaction within an early childhood program either promotes community or disrupts it. Therefore, excellent early childhood
programs have in place a process that pulls the energies and abilities of all the members of the school community together
so that everyone—children, educators, parents, and community members—develop well. In particular, healthy interactions between
educators and families create the necessary conditions for the early childhood programs: (1) to impact the lifepaths of the
families; and, in turn, (2) to engage the families in the work of improving the early childhood programs. In this article,
research on the Jewish Early Childhood Education Initiative (JECEI) is presented. JECEI was selected for study because JECEI
early childhood programs are characterized by healthy relationships, the capacity to successfully promote children’s learning
and development, and the engagement of families in the work of school improvement. 相似文献
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Marilyn Fleer 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2004,31(3):51-68
Socio-cultural theory has provided researchers with a powerful cultural tool for examining many taken-for-granted practices
within early childhood education (Wertsch 1991). In drawing upon this tradition, this paper outlines a study that investigated
the learning experiences of Indigenous Australian preschool-aged children at home, in the community and in schooling contexts.
Each family was given a video camera and asked to record aspects of their child’s life that they considered important for
growing up in Australia today. Rogoff’s (1998) three planes of analysis were used to examine the video and interview data
gathered. The study documented important cultural understandings relevant to early childhood education from the perspective
of a range of Indigenous families. 相似文献
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Howard P. Parette Amanda C. Quesenberry Craig Blum 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,37(5):335-343
Technology use permeates virtually all aspects of twenty-first century society, though its integration in early childhood
settings and recognition as a developmentally appropriate practice remains problematic. A position is taken that education
professionals may be ‘missing the boat’ by not embracing technology usage as a developmentally appropriate practice. Concerns
are presented that both preservice education and inservice professional development require substantial improvement if early
childhood education professionals are to both recognize the role of technology in developmentally appropriate practice and
develop skills in using it in classroom settings. 相似文献
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Mary Trepanier-Street Martha A. Adler Julie Taylor 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):337-343
With the increasing demands placed on working families and the push downward of academics from the K-12 system, there is a
critical need to provide high-quality early childhood programming for our nation’s children, particularly those considered
at risk for academic failure. This study attempts to (a) understand the beliefs of college students about early childhood
development and developmentally appropriate practices, and (b) determine if these beliefs change after their yearlong involvement
in Jumpstart, a national intensive mentoring program for academically at-risk preschoolers. Surveys from this national program
investigated college students’ beliefs about early childhood development and developmentally appropriate practices. Results
indicate that a yearlong mentoring program positively impacts college students’ beliefs. These beliefs become less skills-based
more and child-centered and constructivist. 相似文献
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In the past, Latino families were often regarded as being uninvolved in their child’s education, particularly within the parent
involvement literature. More recently, authors are encouraging educational professionals to look at a family’s “funds of knowledge”
to encourage their involvement. This expression takes into account the knowledge a teacher can gain from a family and child,
including awareness of culture, familial background, and other contributions the family can add to the child’s education.
This article reviews findings from the analyses of focus groups conducted with Latino family members who have a child(ren)
enrolled at a Head Start Center. Findings indicate that Latino families openly communicated strengths, interests, aspirations
and learning opportunities for their child and family yet often faced barriers in conveying these to teachers and other staff
in their child’s life. Implications for using inquiry-based approaches to bridge this gap in family-school communication are
discussed. 相似文献
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Barry Carpenter 《British Journal of Special Education》2005,32(4):176-183
In March 2005, Barry Carpenter, OBE, Chief Executive and Director of Research at Sunfield, an education and residential care centre for children with severe and complex learning needs, gave his inaugural professional lecture at University College Worcester. This article is based on that lecture. In it, Barry Carpenter reviews international trends in early childhood intervention and relates these to changing patterns of childhood disability, family needs, practitioner-led service development and Government policy initiatives. He describes a political climate in the UK which is ripe for the development of a nationally cohesive programme of early childhood intervention and proposes a number of key factors hat are crucial to the consolidation of the plethora of initiatives that have taken place in the UK in recent years. These include: early interventions that are delivered from the point of diagnosis; practice that is transdisciplinary; and high quality training for professionals. At the heart of this process, however, must be the voice of the family - guiding, informing, sharing, engaging. The key to successful early childhood intervention, Barry Carpenter argues, is responsivity - to society, to its families, but most of all to its children. 相似文献
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In this case study, a co-operative inquiry process was used to facilitate the expansion of inclusive early childhood education
and care practices in a rural community in the Midwest. A university and a community researcher first engaged in interviews
and site visits, during which they learned how a three-member inclusion team of early care and education professionals initiated
changes in practice from self-contained to inclusive special education and therapy. Key practices included responding to families’
priorities, changing roles, and providing integrated services and support for children’s successful transitions into Kindergarten.
The second part of the research consisted of action planning during focus groups and community meetings, which resulted in
social recognition from the school district, technical assistance through state improvement grant funding, and better preschool
options for young children with disabilities.
*We gratefully acknowledge partial funding of this research by the Dean's Office at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
and State Improvement Grant funding by the Department of Public Instruction. 相似文献
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Anna Kilderry 《教育政策杂志》2014,29(2):242-262
This paper examines teacher accountability and authority in early childhood policy. It reports on data from a study that investigated the influences affecting early childhood teacher decision-making at the preschool level in Victoria, Australia. Using a question raised by Ball ‘Where are the teachers in all this [policy]?’ provided a starting point for the critical discourse analysis into how forms of control, teacher authority, obligation and constraint within policies potentially influenced teachers’ curriculum decisions. The study found that despite no government-mandated curriculum framework at the time, teachers were held accountable for their curricular practice. Yet as professionals, early childhood teachers were denied public acknowledgement of their expertise as they were almost invisible in policy. In the four policies analysed, proprietors of early childhood settings and preschool agencies held authority over curriculum. Subsequently, teachers’ authority as professionals with curricular knowledge was diminished. 相似文献
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Marilyn Fleer Bridie Raban 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2007,27(2):103-118
Over the past 10 years, early childhood professionals have been increasingly influenced by cultural‐historical theory. In order to support professionals evolving their practice, the Australian government commissioned a set of cultural‐historical resources specifically designed to build literacy and numeracy experiences for children from birth to the age of five years. This paper reports on an investigation of how teachers and families used the tools for supporting concept formation in literacy and numeracy and how they came to understand cultural‐historical theory. A sample of 349 people (families, and qualified and unqualified early childhood professionals) were either surveyed online or interviewed in relation to the resources. The findings indicate that teachers focused more explicitly on cognitive outcomes for children as a result of using the resources, and most families interacted differently with their children in everyday situations after having piloted the resources. 相似文献
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Kevin James Swick 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(1):81-85
Violence is one of the most prevalent elements in the lives of homeless families with young children. This violence may come
in various forms: domestic violence, street violence, violence in one’s childhood, witnessing violence, and other avenues
and modes. Violence disrupts the normal bonding between parent and child. It isolates and degrades families. Early childhood
professionals can support parents and children who are victims of violence through support, education, and nurturance. 相似文献
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Denise D. Shaffer 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1988,15(3):16-19
Conclusion Longitudinal research on effective early childhood education programs has consistently demonstrated the importance of home-school
communication (Berger, 1981). Ernest Boyer has stated it simply yet profoundly: “Good homes make good schools.” Child care
programs must commit themselves to involving parents in their program with parent, child and staff acting as a unit (Yawkey
& Bakawa-Evenson, 1975). This can be done by building a relationship with families that begins well and continues to develop
in positive ways. Day care professionals can best enhance the development of children by planning programs which are responsive
to the needs of families.
Denise D. Shaffer is currently a granduate student in Early Childhood Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She
has worked as a day care teacher, family day care coordinator, and early intervention specialist with a Head Start program.
She sincerely thanks Dr. Mary Renck Jalongo for her review of this article. 相似文献
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Kevin J. Swick 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(4):299-304
By utilizing all of the voices of homeless children and families we can gain a better understanding of their needs and thus
be more effective in designing programs that can support them in becoming more independent. This article reviews the importance
of the voices of homeless preschool children and their parents as well that of the professionals who work with them in developing
responses to this problem. Strategies that empower homeless preschool children and their families are noted. These strategies
include: quality preschool care, therapeutic practices that empower the entire family, case management schemes that provide
support to homeless children and families, and societal changes that empower the family. Critical roles that early childhood
education professionals can carry out in this empowerment process are delineated and discussed. 相似文献
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Barry Carpenter 《British Journal of Special Education》2000,27(3):135-144
A dramatic rise in the survival rates of children born with disabilities (particularly those born prematurely) has been reported in the last decade. The nature of their disabilities is, at times, significantly different from that previously reported, posing problems for the families attempting to nurture the development of these children. Barry Carpenter, Chief Executive of Sunfield, considers the needs of the self-defining family, the implications for interdisciplinary practice, and the changing pattern of early childhood disability. He asks a fundamental question: 'How can professionals sustain the family of a child with disabilities?' 相似文献
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This paper explores perceptions of professional identity among experienced early childhood educators (ECEs) who are novice
students in a new master’s degree program in ECE. We sought to examine the changes experienced by these educators. The study
used qualitative content analysis, which included an open-ended questionnaire that was administered twice to the participants:
at the beginning of their first year of study and at the end of the second year. The findings indicate a change in the participants’
perceptions of their multi-dimensional professional identity. They began to examine the early childhood educational system
with a critical point of view based on their academic and pedagogical conceptual vision, and became aware of the contingent
political consequences. We believe this study will enable us to advance the ECE system and promote academic research conducted
by professionals. 相似文献
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Engaging young children in literacy activities at home is one way for families to augment and enrich the home literacy setting
and to participate in their child’s education at an early age (St. Pierre et al. in Dev Psychol 41(6): 953–970, 2005). Burgess et al. (Read Res Quart 4(4): 408–426, 2002) suggested that the resources families have at their disposal, the quality of literacy role models provided by parents, and
the types of literacy and language activities in which parents and children engage, are all related to young children’s developing
literacy and language abilities. Other studies demonstrated that even modest literacy-promoting interventions can significantly
enhance a young child’s early literacy environment by increasing the frequency of parent–child book-sharing activities (Weitzman
et al. in Pediatrics 113(5):1248–1253, 2004). Dever (J Early Educ Fam Rev 8(4):17–28, 2001) and Dever and Burtis (Early Child Dev Care 172(4):359–370, 2002) emphasize the use of family literacy bags for early childhood development. Developing and sharing take-home literacy bags
is an exciting literacy-promoting activity that may be shared with children and families to provide support for emergent literacy.
This article explores the development of the BAGS (Books and Good Stuff) take-home literacy kits and provides suggestions
for content, construction, implementation, and evaluation. Sixteen current books are reviewed and recommended by theme. 相似文献