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The Parents’ Values Of Early Childhood Education And Care In Russia: Discovering The Dimensions Via Coding And Category Clustering, Olga Savinskaya
The Parents’ Values Of Early Childhood Education And Care In Russia: Discovering The Dimensions Via Coding And Category Clustering, Olga Savinskaya
The Qualitative Report
In this study I explore parents’ perceptions of kindergarten as a social institution for the provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Global reforms of this important part of the welfare state are a starting point for the research. Redefining welfare ideology and minimizing the social burden on the state leads to the public and scientific debate about the value of early childhood education and its role in investing in human development. In-depth interviews with 30 mothers were analyzed by coding and category clustering. The results show that parents understand the service provided by a kindergarten as complex, aimed …
Nara And The Island, Jess Verzello
Nara And The Island, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Nara lives with her father on their quiet, small island. She dreams of finding an adventure on the island next to hers, but she would have to find a way to get there first. Then one day her father tells her that he has fixed their boat and that she can explore the other island while he looks for the “big fish.” On the other island she finds a large, green, noisy world to explore and meets a boy named Aran. Together they explore the island, and he shows her his favorite secret place which they now share as friends.
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Lee and Colin are best friends, but Lee is a pea and Colin is a carrot. All of Lee’s other friends are peas and can roll, bounce, and blend in together. But Colin is tall and orange and he can’t do any of the things the other peas can. But, Colin makes an excellent tower, bridge, and slide! Lee and the other peas love Colin just the way he is!
The Widow's Broom, Karen Abbott
The Widow's Broom, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
A witch summons another ride, and leaves her old broom behind after it lost it power to fly and crashed them into an elderly widow's garden. After taking in the broom, the widow discovers that it can sweep a floor by itself, play a piano one note at a time, and magically perform other useful tasks. Her neighbors come to see the broom and feel that the broom is unnatural and dangerous. Children bully the broom, and when it defends itself the neighbor visits the widow and demands that it's destroyed. In order to placate her neighbors, she pretends to …
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat, Amanda Durrant
Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Bad Kitty isn't usually scared, but she has felt a plethora of emotions ranging from daring to loopy to vexed. But on Halloween night the doorbell rings and frightening creatures appear at her door. The creepy clown, noisy neanderthal, and yucky yeti scare Kitty. But then, someone drops their candy and Kitty sees all the delightful treats. She decides to not be scared anymore, but then she becomes a very bad kitty: battering bigfoot, kicking kraken, and zinging zombie. Kitty chases away the scary creatures and resolves to never be scared again, but then she hears a dog bark!
I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello
I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
A little boy is joined by the moon as they take a walk across the town, through the park, and over the bridge. They see many nocturnal animals and enjoy the beauty of nighttime before heading home and settling down to sleep.
Go To Sleep Monster!, Karen Abbott
Go To Sleep Monster!, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
Fearless Anna faces the monsters who are scaring the monsters who are scaring her brother. Parents tell children that they shouldn't be afraid of something because it is more afraid of them. Determined to get to the bottom of things so that they can all get to sleep, Anna uncovers layer after layer of frightened fiends until everyone gets a good night's sleep together.
Pandora, Jess Verzello
Pandora, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Pandora lives alone in a place of forgotten things. She builds herself a lovely home and spends her days fixing broken and lost things. One day a bird falls from the sky, but Pandora isn’t sure how to fix him. She cares for the bird and nurses him back to health. As he gains strength, he brings back seeds and twigs from other places. But then the bird leaves and doesn’t come back. Pandora is heartbroken, but little by little the seeds grow until the place of forgotten things becomes covered in flowers and greenery. She hears her friend’s birdsong …
No More Bows, Kristie Hinckley
No More Bows, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Hugo is excited for his walk until Milly puts a bow on him. The neighborhood dogs are amused, but Hugo is not, so he eventually finds a way to take it off. This goes on for a few days, with several different bows, including frilly ones. Hugo has had enough and runs away. He comes across a sign in a bow shop window that says “Show your dog you love them!” That’s when Hugo realizes that Milly always put bows on him because she loves him. Hugo returns home to Milly and Hugo proudly wears his bow tie for all …
I Am Not A Chair!, Ariel Woodbury
I Am Not A Chair!, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
All the other animals keep mistaking Giraffe for a chair! He tries to speak up, but every time he does something happens! So he tries a different approach: he decides to show them the difference between himself and the chair by making one. Unfortunately for Giraffe, the chair looks just like him! A hungry lion sits on Giraffe while he looks for an animal to eat. Giraffe stands still until he finally tells the lion that he's a giraffe. The lion is so scared that his chair is talking that he runs away. The next day, Giraffe tells everyone what …
Zip! Zoom! On A Broom, Karen Abbott
Zip! Zoom! On A Broom, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
Count up to ten, count down again! Ten witches share an adventure as they fly scrunched together on a single broom. Too many witches on one broom, each witch tumbles and falls one by one into the gloom and doom. One falls into the sea, another lands next to a surprised Yeti and the mishaps continue to the end.
Marlo, Ariel Woodbury
Marlo, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Marlo has to take a bath, but when the bathtub sinks into the ocean Marlo has to swim after his duckie! Marlo goes on a wild adventure through the water, even going inside a whale! He swims and explores the ocean until bath-time is over.
Even Monsters Need To Sleep, Ariel Woodbury
Even Monsters Need To Sleep, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Even monsters need to sleep at night! Bigfoot leaves on a little light when he sleeps. Aliens wear fuzzy pajamas to get cozy. Yeti makes a snack to settle his tummy. Loch Ness gets a drink to quench that thirst. Monsters have bedtimes too!
The Shady Tree, Sierra Beveridge
The Shady Tree, Sierra Beveridge
Children's Book and Media Review
Tan Tan is an angry rich boy who loves his Shady Tree. He lives in a big house and loves to play under the shade of the tree with all of his toys, but then Ping shows up. Tan Tan does not like Ping and tells him to leave. Ping gets the idea to buy the shade from the beautiful tree and Tan Tan agrees to sell Ping the shade because he thinks Ping is being silly. But Tan Tan slowly learns that this was a mistake as Ping invites his friends (and their animals) over to sit with him …
La La La: A Story Of Hope, Karen Abbott
La La La: A Story Of Hope, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
A small girl is singing her song to the world. She listens with her hand to her ear, but there is no response, just a few falling leaves. Are they answering her song? She ventures outside but neither the tree nor the pond nor the grass are responsive. She returns inside frustrated. The leaves continue to follow her inside. Has something changed? She ventures out again into the night, but still nothing sings back to her. She finds a ladder, but still can't seem to reach the answer to her song. Back inside, she sings herself to sleep and from …
Mingo The Flamingo, Ariel Woodbury
Mingo The Flamingo, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Mingo is heading out on his very first migration. Everything is going well until his family flies into a storm and Mingo crash-lands on a farm! The farm animals aren't sure what Mingo is. After determining that he is indeed an animal and not a golf club or lawn ornament, Mingo tries to remember who he is. But nothing seems right until one day he remembers! But poor Mingo's wing is still hurt and he can't fly to meet his family. Mingo trains to become strong enough to fly, but he still can't! His friends on the farm build him …
Green Animals, Kristie Hinckley
Green Animals, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
In Green Animals, readers learn that green is the combination of the primary colors blue and yellow which makes it a secondary color. There are green animals that live in water and on land. Some of these animals include tree pythons, European tree frogs, green basilisks, caterpillars, and Amazon parrots. Many animals, including several varieties of mantis, use their green characteristics as camouflage. Some animals like tree sloths turn green from the algae that grows on them. Readers will learn all kinds of interesting facts about green animals in this book.
That's A Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen, Ariel Woodbury
That's A Possibility!: A Book About What Might Happen, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Will the mouse find its way through the maze? It's a possibility! Could you knock down twelve bowling pins in one roll? That impossible since there are only ten pins! This book gives simple, and often funny, examples for many terms like certain, likely, probable, and improbable. There are many simple illustrated examples to help kids to learn the concepts easily.
This Or That? Moth Or Butterfly?, Ariel Woodbury
This Or That? Moth Or Butterfly?, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Moths and butterflies both start as caterpillars, but they are much more different than you might think! Moths are more active at night and butterflies are more active during the day. Moths have thicker bodies and feathery antennae; butterflies have larger wings and brighter colors.
Subtract It!: Fun With Subtraction, Ariel Woodbury
Subtract It!: Fun With Subtraction, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
In this book you will learn how to subtract numbers, how to read a subtraction sentence, and how to use a number line to help you do subtraction problems. With fun, interactive lessons and activities, kids will better understand this math concept after reading Subtract It!
Room On The Broom, Annie Huish
Room On The Broom, Annie Huish
Children's Book and Media Review
The witch tapped her broomstick and whoosh! The witch and her cat were gone. This captivating book follows a witch and her cat as they fly through the wind. Along the way, the witch loses articles including her hat, bow, and wand. As each article is lost, the witch and her cat fly down to find what they are looking for, and on their way befriend a dog, a bird, and a frog. Everyone seems happy, but when the frog jumps on the broomstick, it snaps in two and the animals all fall into a bog! As the witch gains …
Pete The Cat’S Got Class, Kristie Hinckley
Pete The Cat’S Got Class, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Pete loves math and always has the right answers in math class. Pete’s classmate, Tom, isn’t as strong in math and doesn’t enjoy it at all. Pete is determined to help Tom understand and enjoy math, so he uses race cars, something Tom loves, to help him learn math. They do their math homework, but when they turn it in, their teacher notices that they both got one of the same answers wrong; he thinks they cheated. They bring the race cars to class and each of them prove to their teacher that they didn’t cheat and that they really …
The Children Keep Reminding Us: One School's Experience After 9/11, Kate Delacorte
The Children Keep Reminding Us: One School's Experience After 9/11, Kate Delacorte
Occasional Paper Series
This essay reflects on the experience of a new preschool that was located a few blocks away from the World Trade Center and had not yet opened at the time of September 11. After the event, the school held meetings with teachers, parents, and their children. The conversations highlighted the overwhelming difference between the needs of the parents and the needs of the children. Through sharing of fears, experiences, and emotions, the new community grew closer.
The Power Of More Than One, Jane King
The Power Of More Than One, Jane King
Occasional Paper Series
Jane King reflects on her experiences as a preschool teacher eager to use methods outside of the norm. She resists activities that encourage homogeneity and strives to promote autonomy and free thinking in her students. After transitioning from teacher to parent, she still uses this philosophy to make small changes in her daughter's classroom and encourage her children to engage in acts of resistance and critical thinking both in and out of school.
The Pleasure Of Resistance: Jouissance And Reconceiving "Misbehavior", Peter Taubman
The Pleasure Of Resistance: Jouissance And Reconceiving "Misbehavior", Peter Taubman
Occasional Paper Series
Taubman offers an alternative to resistance theory through Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacan's concept of jouissance - a term associated with intense pleasure. Through this perspective, it is important to understand why children resist on an individual level. An appreciation of the jouissance in schools would work against the impulse to domesticate, to control or to appropriate the subjectivities of students and children.
Everyday Tactics And The Carnavalesque: New Lenses For Viewing Resistance In Preschool, Joseph Tobin
Everyday Tactics And The Carnavalesque: New Lenses For Viewing Resistance In Preschool, Joseph Tobin
Occasional Paper Series
Tobin builds upon Steve Schultz's argument that young children’s resisting authority in preschool is a rehearsal or training ground for resisting authority later in life. Using this perspective, this article turns to theories of power and resistance to help us understand everyday events in preschools, and to suggest implications for the choices we make as adults who work with young children.
Building Higher Than We Are Tall: The Power Of Narrative Inquiry In The Life Of A Teacher, Stephanie Bevacqua
Building Higher Than We Are Tall: The Power Of Narrative Inquiry In The Life Of A Teacher, Stephanie Bevacqua
Occasional Paper Series
Bevacqua offers two anecdotes from her teaching career that illustrate young children testing the limits of classroom rules and exploring their autonomy and agency. She reflects on her career as a progressive teacher who works to redefine traditional power relations in the classroom by supporting the children’s investigation of community rules and codes of appropriate behavior.
Finding Meaning In The Resistance Of Preschool Children: Critical Theory Takes An Interpretive Look, Steven Schultz
Finding Meaning In The Resistance Of Preschool Children: Critical Theory Takes An Interpretive Look, Steven Schultz
Occasional Paper Series
Offers an analysis to resistant behavior of preschool children that goes beyond lack of socialization. This interpretation focuses upon the social and cultural meanings of individual and group behaviors. The article is concerned with the acts of the children that run contrary to, or simply outside of, the sanctioned school activities. This is an important vantage from which to analyze preschool resistance because some important behaviors can be identified at the point when they are first likely to occur; when young children, as members of a peer group, first meet figures of authority.
Introduction: Rethinking Resistance In Schools, Jonathan G. Silin
Introduction: Rethinking Resistance In Schools, Jonathan G. Silin
Occasional Paper Series
This issue of Occasional Papers began as a Graduate School seminar honoring Steven Schultz, a much beloved and respected faculty member whose untimely death greatly impacted the Bank Street community. In 1989, Steve’s work was on the cutting edge of attempts to see acts of individual and collective resistance in preschool classrooms as potential precursors of political resistance among adults. The essays in Rethinking Resistance reflect a broad range of experiences and perspectives that prompt us to rethink the meaning and importance of resistance.
Talking About Language In Pre-School: The Use Of Video-Stimulated Recall With Emergent Bilingual Children, P. Zitlali Morales, Joseph C. Rumenapp
Talking About Language In Pre-School: The Use Of Video-Stimulated Recall With Emergent Bilingual Children, P. Zitlali Morales, Joseph C. Rumenapp
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
After first discussing the ideologies (standard and monolingual) implicit in language education in the United States, we argue for a necessary ideological shift in the way multiple languages and other forms of semiotic communication are understood, used, and supported in preschool for emergent bilinguals. We present examples from a preschool study in Illinois where emergent bilingual children in two classrooms used video-stimulated accounts to make sense of their actions. Students used multiple semiotic resources – including English, Spanish, and embodiment – to collaborate with others and represent their ideas. Our findings include evidence of language awareness and awareness of audience …