Resisting the Kinder-Race: Restoring Joy to Early Learning (Early Childhood Education Series)

Kindergarten has changed. Many believe that it no longer reflects a nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement tests that they will take continuously throughout their time in school. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about, why it must change, and how all stakeholders in the early childhood and elementary school communities must take part in the reform process. The author draws on his own research to consider how the Kinder-Race might be reimagined through more democratic principles of schooling. Brown offers both practical and political strategies that can alter the day-to-day practices of the kindergarten classroom and the policies that currently define PreK-12 education in the United States. This resource will help readers see kindergarten as an educational environment that expands the learning of every child. Book Features: <ul> <li>Provides an in-depth glimpse into a typical day in the Kinder-Race.</li> <li>Examines how kindergarten devolved from a garden that nurtures children into a race that dashes them from skill to skill.</li> <li>Brings together what are often siloed conversations among stakeholder groups.</li> <li>Highlights how kindergarten is now primarily defined through an economic lens and how this framing of learning, earning, and consuming might be rethought.&nbsp;</li> <li>Employs varied conceptual frameworks to investigate how stakeholders across different levels of public education make sense of the changed kindergarten.</li> <li>Illuminates the complexity of what is occurring in today's kindergarten and&nbsp;puts forward practical and achievable ideas for change.</li> </ul>

Education & Teaching

Brown, Christopher P.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Kindergarten has changed. Many believe that it no longer reflects a nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement tests that they will take continuously throughout their time in school. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about, why it must change, and how all stakeholders in the early childhood and elementary school communities must take part in the reform process. The author draws on his own research to consider how the Kinder-Race might be reimagined through more democratic principles of schooling. Brown offers both practical and political strategies that can alter the day-to-day practices of the kindergarten classroom and the policies that currently define PreK–12 education in the United States. This resource will help readers see kindergarten as an educational environment that expands the learning of every child. 
Book Features: Provides an in-depth glimpse into a typical day in the Kinder-Race. Examines how kindergarten devolved from a garden that nurtures children into a race that dashes them from skill to skill. Brings together what are often siloed conversations among stakeholder groups. Highlights how kindergarten is now primarily defined through an economic lens and how this framing of learning, earning, and consuming might be rethought. Employs varied conceptual frameworks to investigate how stakeholders across different levels of public education make sense of the changed kindergarten. Illuminates the complexity of what is occurring in today’s kindergarten and puts forward practical and achievable ideas for change.

Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat the reproduction cheats alone is well worth reading.

U.S. Military Patches of World War II

History

Military

Turner

Great patch book focused only on World War II. Depicts hundreds of SSIs (patches), tabs and scrolls, as well as chevrons, including SSI reproductions for comparative purposes. Learning how to defeat the reproduction cheats alone is well worth reading.

Do you feel anxious about sending your child to kindergarten? Are you looking for ideas on how to prepare your child for kindergarten? If so, this book will replace such worries with wisdom and confidence. It does so by defining what school readiness means and why it is such a big deal both socially and politically. It also examines what is known about sending children to kindergarten and what occurs if parents decide to hold their children out of kindergarten for a year. This book provides insight into how your child learns and how to support such learning. Here, you will gain a plan of action to prepare yourself and your child for a successful kindergarten year.

Ready for Kindergarten?

Advantage Publishing Group

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Books by Brown, Christopher P.

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Resisting the Kinder-Race: Restoring Joy to Early Learning (Early Childhood Education Series)

Resisting the Kinder-Race: Restoring Joy to Early Learning (Early Childhood Education Series)

U.S. Military Patches of World War II

U.S. Military Patches of World War II

Ready for Kindergarten?