Preschool Teachers' Lives and Work

Stories and Studies from the Field
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-08185-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 315 g

Preschool Teachers’ Lives and Work focuses on preschool teachers as people, what they do, and how they are affected by what they do. Highly politicized and hotly debated, preschool today is increasingly focused on comparatively narrow views of school readiness and academic outcomes which are generally in opposition to the broader view of readiness proposed by NAEYC. This powerful book, based around interviews and data drawn primarily from Head Start programs, illustrates the profound humanity of this profession and underscores the pressing and insistent need for greater investments in teachers’ well-being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bullough Jr., Robert V.

Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the Stage: ECE, the Teacher Workforce, and Head Start 2. Life History, Life Course, and the Problem of Family/Work Balance 3. The Intensification of Teaching: What is good teaching? 4. Teaming and Teacher Identity 5. Chronic Homelessness and Teaching at Hawthorne House 6. Building Family-School Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities 7. A Woman’s World: Gender and ECE Teaching 8. Contested Professionalism: The Ethics of Care 9. Conclusion, Now What?

Über Autor(innen)

Robert V. Bullough Jr. is Professor of Teacher Education at Brigham Young University. He has received the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award for Excellence in Education from BYU and the Michael Huberman Award for Excellence in Research from AERA among other honors.

Kendra M. Hall-Kenyon is Professor of Teacher Education at Brigham Young University. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Cognitive Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University.