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Full-Text Articles in Early Childhood Education
Supporting An Ecosystem Of Learning: Outdoor Ece Lesson Plans, Nicole K. Ryden
Supporting An Ecosystem Of Learning: Outdoor Ece Lesson Plans, Nicole K. Ryden
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
While participating in an internship at Lichen Early Learning, lesson plans were created to uplift understanding of different relationships to land, consent, gender identity, race, and activism. It is essential for educators to create lesson plans that equip preschoolers for navigating the world they are a part of and disrupt systemic harm. Creating and applying lesson plans can serve as a way to start this kind of work.
Everybody Watched And Watched: Illustrations For A Preschool Journal, Sylvie Spencer Ackroyd
Everybody Watched And Watched: Illustrations For A Preschool Journal, Sylvie Spencer Ackroyd
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This is the beginning of illustrating excerpts from a journal I dictated at age three into a children’s book. Stories told by a child seemed like interesting material for a children’s book, which was something I have wanted to try for a while. What parts of the experience should be emphasized? How do the entries become a story apart from my memories? How can the images enhance the text? A thumbnail mock-up with several paintings.
Challenging Deficit Discourses: Human Services And Trauma-Informed Practice, Brielle Lamphere
Challenging Deficit Discourses: Human Services And Trauma-Informed Practice, Brielle Lamphere
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study by Kaiser-Permanente has significantly influenced trauma practice in many contexts. As a medicalized model, ACEs was intended to collect population information about traumatic experiences. However, many of its current applications are harmful in practice and in need of critique. More specifically, school systems must reconsider how ACEs is used in curriculum since providing screenings or “trauma-informed” models off of this study often portrays trauma as a deficit. By carefully examining my own education on ACEs and trauma theories at Western Washington University, alongside the experiences of other students and several professors, this deficit discourse …
Montessori Approach In Public Schools, Sara Ronen
Montessori Approach In Public Schools, Sara Ronen
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In June 2020, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, Just Schools Fund, a non-profit organization supporting educational justice, held a seminar with all of the leading organizations in the field of education equity (Global education justice... 2020). The guest speakers agreed that traditional forms of education do not work for all students and that it was beneficial to focus on schools trying innovative approaches. The world needs schools that are progressive, inclusive, and fully supported by the community. These ideas echo an education revolutionary from a much earlier time, Dr. Maria Montessori. Dr. Montessori led an educational movement that pushed for children’s …