The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education

Christopher P. Brown, Mary Benson McMullen, Nancy File, Christopher P. Brown, Mary Benson McMullen, Nancy File

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781119148081
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

The essential resource to the issues surrounding childhood care and education with contributions from noted experts

The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education is a comprehensive resource that offers a review of the historical aspects, best practices, and the future directions of the field. With contributions from noted experts in the field, the book contains 30 interdisciplinary essays that explore in-depth the central issues of early childhood care and education. The handbook presents a benchmark reference to the basic knowledge, effective approaches to use with young children, curriculum design, professional development, current policies, and other critical information.

The expert contributors address the myriad complex policy and practice issues that are most relevant today. The essays provide insight into topics such as child development and diversity, the sociocultural process of child development, the importance of the home environment in the lives of young children, early childhood special education, teaching and learning literacy, and much more. This important resource:

• Presents a comprehensive synopsis of the major components of the field of early childhood care and education
• Contains contributions from leading scholars, researchers, and experts in the field
• Offers the foundational knowledge and practices for working with young children
• Puts the focus on how early childhood works and presents an understanding of culture as a foundational component of both child development and early childhood education

Written for academic scholars, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and students of early childhood care and education, The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Care and Education is a comprehensive resource to the major issues for dealing with childhood care and education with contributions from noted scholars in the field.

Index

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Page references to Figures are followed by the letter ‘f’ , while references to Tables are followed by the letter ‘t’. References to Notes will be followed by the letter ‘n’ and Note number. ECCE stands for ‘early childhood care and education’

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• Abecedarian 104, 645, 684
• abstract counting‐on 340, 341
• abstract thinking and learning 30
• accommodation process, Piaget on 32, 84
• accountability
  • early childhood policy 185, 497–498, 503–504
  • mechanisms 648–651
  • pressure 332
• accreditation 567–590
  • AECHEP see Accreditation of Early Childhood Higher Education Programs (AECHEP),
  • CAEP see Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)
  • defining 567
  • in early childhood care and education 569–571
  • of early learning programs 568–569, 570
  • future directions 586–587
  • general definition and types 567–569
  • in higher education 568, 570
  • institutional 568
  • NAEYC see National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
  • National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) 249, 579
  • organizations 571
  • professional early childhood educators, higher education programs preparing 570
  • programmatic or specialized 568
  • standards 571–573
  • systems 573, 574–575t, 576–579
• Accreditatio...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Section I: Foundations
• Section II: Practices with Young Children
• Section III: Curriculum
• Section IV: Professional Development
• Section V: Policy and Its Impact on Early Childhood Education
• Section VI: Critical Issues and Future Directions
• Index
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