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Early Childhood Education Exclusive Triple Pack
Early Childhood Education Exclusive Triple Pack :
Early Childhood Education for a New Era +
The New Early Childhood Professional +
Guiding Principles for the New Early Childhood Professional
Available for a Strictly Limited Time
Early Childhood Education for a New Era
In her provocative new book, Stacie Goffin presents a leadership manifesto to the field of early childhood education: It should step forward as an agent for change by assuming responsibility for the competent practice of its practitioners and for facilitating positive results for children and their learning. As a field of practice, ECE should formally organise as a profession to realise consistency in practice across sites and program types. Goffin challenges the field to develop field-wide leadership and diminish its reliance on public policy for defining its purpose and structure.
Early Childhood Education for a New Era confronts the disparity between the field’s potential contributions to children’s learning and development and its occupational competence to achieve them. It burros under the identity and leadership question of “What defines and bounds early care and education as a field of practice?” to better understand why this question still lingers. It elevates as an obligation the field’s need to change its collective performance and lifts up the transformational opportunity provided by organising ECE as a professional field of practice.
Offering a fresh viewpoint on national efforts to improve program quality and children's learning and development, the book concludes with ''Next Steps Commentaries'' written by education luminaires Rolf Grafwallner, Jacqueline Jones and Pamela J. Winton outlining concrete action steps to jump-start the essential discussion about moving forward with the ideas presented in the book.
The New Early Childhood Professional
Valora Washington, Brenda Gadson, Kathryn Amel
For today’s early childhood educator, change is a non-negotiable
reality. While the size, force and direction of change can often seem
overwhelming, this book shows the way toward overcoming these gigantic odds or
“Goliaths”. The New Early Childhood
Professional presents some of the heroic experiences and strategic
approaches used by early childhood educators (participants in the CAYL
Institute Fellowship programs) to deal with change. The authors share a
specific framework with concrete steps to help educators become positive
change-makers in the field of early care and education.
Complete with resources, tools and questions for reflection, this
handbook takes readers through four progressive paths toward becoming an
architect of change:
Analysis—When
confronting seemingly insurmountable situations, instead of being overwhelmed,
think and reflect about the situation and discover hidden insights.
Advance—Better
understand the nature of problems while also strengthening your vision and
identity through planning and preparation.
Act—Begin
with everyday challenges and use what you know from every situation, in every
interaction with a child, parent, peer or administrator.
Guiding Principles for the New Early Childhood Professional: Building on Strength and Competence
Valora Washington, Brenda Gadson
With growing evidence about the critical period of birth to age 5
for child development and learning, the imperative to professionalize the early childhood education workforce has never been greater. In this follow-up to The New Early Childhood Professional: A
Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Goliath, the authors share lessons learned from their work with thousands of practitioners. They focus on four Guiding Principles for leading change:
the need to Respect diverse opinions
the need to seek Equity
the need to acknowledge the field’s Strengths
the need to do the hard work to enhance competence.
With a strategic emphasis on building professional communities,
strengthening professional capital and working together to craft solutions, Guiding Principles for the New Early
Childhood Professional presents a clearer vision of a unified future in
early childhood care and education.
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