Overview
Challenges interpretations of best practice in early childhood education
Draws from global research to offer unique perspectives
Opens up new intellectual pathways for theoretical and cultural knowledge
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reconceptualizing Quality: Perceptions of the Child
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Reconceptualizing Quality: Classroom as Community
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Reconceptualizing Quality: Curriculum
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Reconceptualizing Quality: Play-Based Learning
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Zoyah Kinkead-Clark is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of early childhood programmes at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in understanding how young children are shaped by their ecological experiences within the home and wider community with the view to explore how educators can build on these in early years settings.
Kerry-Ann Escayg is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA. Dr. Escayg’s research interests are children and race, anti-racism in early childhood education, racial socialization, and qualitative research with children.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconceptualizing Quality in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development
Book Subtitle: Understanding the Child and Community
Editors: Zoyah Kinkead-Clark, Kerry-Ann Escayg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69013-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69012-0Published: 10 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69015-1Published: 11 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69013-7Published: 09 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 300
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, International and Comparative Education, Infancy and Early Childhood Development