Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool - Talk, Interaction, and the Preschool Teacher Identity

This workexamines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruit's analysis of preschool teachers' talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Organization of Ellis Montessori Preschool
Chapter 2: Transforming Structural Problems into Everyday Challenges
Chapter 3: Everyday Imagination, Producing Belonging, and Producing Autonomy
Chapter 4: Classroom Management: Social Control by Another Name
Chapter 5: Empathy, Affection, and Deeper Bonds
Chapter 6: Emotion Management in the Preschool
Chapter 7: Montessori, Child-Centeredness, and Authenticity
Chapter 8: Assembling Preschool Teachers
Conclusion: Between Teaching and Caring at Ellis Montessori Preschool
References

About the author

By John C. Pruit

Product details

• Authors: John C Pruit, John C. Pruit
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781498545877
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4587-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Age groups: children, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten