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Learning Ecologies and Agentic Pedagogies: Children Meeting the World
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Susan Germein; Tessa McGavock – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
With a challenge to conceptualize an environmental/sustainability education that employs imaginaries and praxis for learning our way through and beyond our planetary crisis, we consider how posthuman creativity articulates into pedagogical practice. We share insights from our researcher/practitioner experience in two different educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Preschools
A Comparative Analysis of Early Years' Programme Culture in the US and Poland -- Advancing Humanism by Placing Love, Freedom, Care and Consideration for Others First
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Krystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
Building on the idea that the culture of an organisation has an extremely deep influence on the personalities, minds and identities of people who participate in it (Hofstede 2015) -- we reflected on how the US and Polish cultures' specific values and beliefs were represented and symbolised in the early childhood settings. We focused our analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
Emotion-Focused Curricula Models and Expressions of and Talk about Emotions between Teachers and Young Children
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Garner, Pamela W.; Bolt, Elizabeth; Roth, Alexa N. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2019
Early childhood curricula reflect guiding principles or beliefs about the knowledge, skills, and behavior that are considered important for learning in the early childhood setting. This study examined linkages between teachers' and young children's expression of and talk about emotions during interactions in early childhood programs, using either…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Humanistic Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Analyzing Curriculum Orientations of Kindergarten Curriculum
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Mak, Barley; Keung, Chrysa; Cheung, Alan – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2018
This chapter critically reviews the official document "Kindergarten Education Curriculum Guide" (2017) in Hong Kong by using the concept of five curriculum orientations as an analytical tool. The five curriculum orientations are academic; cognitive process; social reconstruction; humanistic; and technological. The analysis covers the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Curriculum, Academic Education
"Documentation" in Pistoia Preschools: A Window and A Mirror
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Barrs, Myra; Drury, Rose – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2017
This article discusses the practice of documentation in the early years education services of Pistoia, Italy. The findings, arising from a research study visit in May 2014, provide insights into the values and principles implicit in early childhood practice in the Pistoian "nidi d'infanzia" [nurseries] (for children from 3 months to 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Nursery Schools, Kindergarten
Following Watery Relations in Early Childhood Pedagogies
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Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; Clark, Vanessa – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
Working methodologically and theoretically with the hydro-logics of bodies of water, this article addresses the limitations of humanistic perspectives on water play in early childhood classrooms, and proposes pedagogies of watery relations. The article traces the fluid, murky, surging, creative, unpredictable specificities of bodies of water that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Water, Figurative Language, Classroom Environment