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El. knyga: Empowering Young Children: How to Nourish Deep, Transformative Learning For Social Justice [Taylor & Francis e-book]

  • Formatas: 156 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2022
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003202875
  • Taylor & Francis e-book
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  • Formatas: 156 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2022
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003202875

This essential guidebook offers creative, exciting ways for teachers to implement and support deep, authentic, and transformative learning in early childhood. Chapters feature activities, ideas for lesson, events that teachers can try, and techniques to involve parents and families, bringing this important work beyond the classroom walls.



This essential guidebook offers creative, exciting ways for teachers to implement and support deep, authentic and transformative learning in early childhood. Each standalone chapter identifies a key focus for empowering children, exploring the research behind the habit, how it stimulates deep learning and the ways in which it can help address implicit hierarchies and disrupt oppression. Chapters feature hands-on activities, ideas for lessons and events that teachers can try, alongside techniques to involve parents and families, bringing this important work beyond the classroom walls.

Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xiv
Introduction to Empowering Young Children 1(10)
Respecting Children's Unique Perspectives
2(1)
Challenging Social Facts
3(2)
What Is the Point of School?
5(2)
Why Kids Need to Enact Social Justice
7(1)
A Great Moment for Bold Imagination
8(3)
1 Empowering Young Children to Be Social and Collaborative: How to Nourish Empathy, Understanding and Valuing Others
11(22)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Collaboration
12(1)
Synchrony: The Beginning of Empathy
12(3)
How Collaboration Facilitates and Deepens Learning
15(1)
Learning by Joining Communities
15(1)
Solving Problems Together in "The Zone"
15(4)
Collaboration Nourishes Social Justice via Empathy, Understanding and Valuing Others
19(3)
Sample Nourishment of Empathy, Understanding and Valuing Others
22(4)
In Sum
26(7)
2 Empowering Young Children to Be Playful and Joyful: How to Nourish Flexibility, Sharing Power and Handling the Unpredictable
33(20)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Play
34(1)
How Play Facilitates and Deepens Learning
35(2)
Play Enhances Social Skills: A Pathway to Social Justice
37(2)
Free to Play
39(3)
Play Is at Risk
42(2)
How Playfulness and Joy Inspire Social Justice
44(2)
Sample Nourishment of Joyful Flexibility, Sharing Power and Handling the Unpredictable
46(2)
In Sum
48(5)
3 Empowering Young Children to Be Curious Inquirers: How to Nourish Experimentation and Innovation
53(20)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Inquiry
54(1)
How Inquiry Facilitates and Deepens Learning: Curiosity and Questions
55(5)
Outcomes of Curiosity: Divergent Thinking and Creativity
60(2)
How Curiosity Inspires Social Justice
62(4)
Sample Nourishment of Experimentation and Innovation
66(2)
In Sum
68(5)
4 Empowering Young Children for Autonomy and Agency: How to Nourish Freedom, Self-Determination and Confidence
73(17)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Autonomy and Agency
74(2)
How Autonomy Facilitates and Deepens Learning
76(3)
Harms of Surveillance (and Even Praise)
79(2)
How Autonomy Nourishes Freedom, Self-Determination and Confidence
81(1)
Placemaking as Autonomy
82(1)
Sample Nourishment of Freedom, Self-Determination and Confidence
83(2)
In Sum
85(5)
5 Empowering Young Children to Take Their Time: How to Nourish Patience, Presence and Comfort with Discomfort
90(22)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Time in Childhood
91(1)
How Time Facilitates and Deepens Learning
92(1)
The Faster Equals Better Myth
93(2)
Too Much, Too Soon in School
95(1)
Unstructured Time for Learning
96(2)
Pausing, Incubation and Problem Solving
98(3)
How Time Nourishes Social Justice
101(3)
Sample Nourishment of Patience, Presence and Comfort with Discomfort
104(2)
In Sum
106(6)
6 Empowering Young Children for Dynamic Movement in Nature: How to Nourish Embodiment and Ecological Attunement
112(21)
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Moving, Embodied Learning
113(1)
How Movement Facilitates Deep Learning
113(1)
Teaching for Embodied Cognition
114(2)
Complex Thinking and Spontaneous Movement
116(2)
Movement Outdoors
118(1)
Walking
119(1)
Nature
120(3)
How Dynamic Outdoor Learning Nourishes Social Justice
123(1)
Sample Nourishment of Embodied, Ecologically Attuned, Outdoor Learning
124(4)
In Sum
128(5)
7 Empowering Young Children to Value All Voices, Practice Dialogue: How to Nourish Active, Deep Listening and Critical Thinking
133
Evolutionary and Developmental History of Dialogue
134(1)
How Dialogue Facilitates and Deepens Learning
135(1)
Children Ask the Most and the Best Questions
136(2)
In the Present, Real-Time
138(1)
Active and Deep Listening
139(1)
How Dialogue Nourishes Social Justice
140(1)
Children Need to Be Empowered in Education
141(1)
How Dialogue Nourishes Multiple Perspective-Taking
142(2)
Talking and Thinking Together
144(2)
How to Implement Dialogue with Young Children
146(1)
In Sum
147(4)
Conclusion
151(1)
Navigating Complexity
152(2)
On the Ground
154(1)
Final Thoughts: Nourishing Virtuous Citizens, Leaders and Changemakers
155
Wendy L. Ostroff is an applied developmental and cognitive psychologist, and Professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, USA.