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Supporting Early Childhood Practice through Difficult Times encourages early years students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in the light of challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory pressures.
List of contents
1. Early Childhood Practice in Difficult Times
Part I: The Impact of Digitalisation2. The Mixed Blessing of Digital Tools
3. Big sister' is watching: a feminist critical discourse analysis of texts supporting the use of live stream video feed technology in licensed childcare programs in Ontario and Alberta, Canada
4. Using the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators to develop didactic Tools on AI for Early Childhood Settings
5. Narratives of Crisis: raising children in digital times
Part II: Early Childhood Workforce and Management Issues6. Enhancing the Development of Practitioners and Settings
7. Professional development of Croation EC teachers in a virtual world - opportunity or obstacle?
8. Impacts of neoliberal inspired policies on educators’ professional identity in five countries: Visions for a better future
9. Fostering practice-based philosophy in early years professionals
10. The LEYF Model: A sustainable ECEC model that addresses the disadvantage gap
11. Seeking and listening to families in updating Australia's Approved learning frameworks
Part III: Alternative Pedagogies and Practices
12. Embracing Diversity and Inclusion
13. The quiddity of inclusion: Knowing what matters in early childhood
14. Increasing inclusivity through embedding art in daily practice
15. Imagination: the missing element in ECE?
16. Education at the crossfire: a human right approach to support children with disabilities in disasters
17. Children reading to their parents - From Australia to Israel - Implementation and Challenges
Part IV: More than education and care: Philosophical Perspectives on Early Childhood Practice
18. The need for different ways of thinking 19. Learning in and from nature: Supporting Children's Development
20. A Posthuman Perspective: Learning Entanglements Among a Child, Family Members, and the Material World
21. The Concept of Dialogue: bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and the English Early Years Sector
22. Nurturing the spiritual in children - enacting a spiritual pedagogy to develop children's sense of self
23. Towards a better future
About the author
Ute Ward is a former Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Summary
Supporting Early Childhood Practice through Difficult Times encourages early years students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in the light of challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory pressures.
