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Early Learning and Care (ELC)
Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development
The term ‘capacity building’ has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to help ‘build’ a government’s or institution’s ability to address key development challenges. However, like other well intentioned interventions from the industrialized West, such ‘capacity building’ can have destructive, as well as productive, impacts. This volume problematizes such activities and presents an alternative approach to promoting capacity in development contexts. The volume starts with an exploration of the concept of capacity building and goes on to focus on two examples of capacity promotion for early childhood education, care and development (ECD). The First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), an innovative and successful post-secondary education program initiated in 1989 at the request of a large tribal council in northern Canada, led to 10 educational deliveries with diverse Indigenous communities over the subsequent two decades. The second program, launched in 1994 at the request of UNICEF headquarters, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. While the program encompasses a range of capacity-promoting activities, the central vehicle for this ECD development work is the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), a program created in 2001 and now in transition to African universities. This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities—at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities.
Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children’s literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis. Chapters are written by authors with expertise in both college teaching and the delivery of research-supported literacy practices in schools. The book features detailed explanations of a wide variety of literacy strategies that can be implemented by both beginning and expert practitioners. Readers will gain knowledge about topics frequently covered in college literacy courses, along with guided practice for applying this knowledge in their future or current classrooms. The book’s success-oriented framework helps guide educators toward improving their own practices and is designed to foster the literacy development of students of all ages.
Music for the Young Child
From Hostos Community College, this book takes a holistic approach to the study of music, drawing from diverse fields such as music education, ethnomusicology, sociology, and cognitive sciences. The book takes into account many different perspectives on a child’s development rather than approaching it by focusing on only one subject.
ECE Open Textbook Collection
Available in English and Spanish
Child, Family, and Community – Spring 2021 version
This textbook is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn including how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence.
Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
Learn how to effectively plan curriculum for young children.
Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education
A textbook that discusses observation and assessment in the context of early childhood education.
Parenting and Family Diversity Issues
This book has been created for students and all individuals who work with children and families (e.g., educators, parents, caregivers, direct support workers, etc.) in diverse contexts. It is imperative to understand how and what factors may influence child outcomes across the lifespan. Therefore, key concepts related to parenting, child-rearing, care-giving, and parenting education are outlined in this textbook to provide historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives across vast settings and developmental domains.
The Role of Equity and Diversity on Early Childhood Education
A textbook that discusses equity and diversity in the context of early childhood education.
Introduction to Childhood Studies
Introduction to key concepts in the study of childhood from multidisciplinary perspectives. It examines the historical and socio-cultural constructions of “the child” and childhood, exploring topics such as child development, cultural notions of adolescence, children as social agents, children’s rights and challenges facing children in both local and global contexts.
Open ECE Textbooks
Includes an extensive list of open titles.
Open Courses in Child Development and Early Childhood Education
From the ASCCC OER Initiative (Academic Senate for California Community Colleges).
Summary of Open Educational Resources in Early Childhood Education
A lot of work has been done in OER in the past 2 years in Early Childhood Education and there are additional projects that are scheduled to be done over the next several months, mostly focused on the core/CAP 8 classes Child Growth and Development Child, Family, and Community Principles and Practices in Teaching Young Children Observation and Assessment Introduction to Curriculum Health, Safety, & Nutrition Teaching in a Diverse Society Practicum/Fieldwork.
Mental Health and Addictions (MHA)
Supporting Survivors: Training and Facilitation Guide :
Violence and abuse in society, Adult education, continuous learning, Curriculum planning and development, Educational strategies and policy, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Indigenous peoples, Sexual abuse and harassment, Social attitudes, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Social groups and identities, Sociology, Social theory, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Law and society, gender issues, Criminal law: Gender violence, Regional government law, Teacher training, Mental health services