Embracing Challenges in Early Childhood Education - Flexible Protocols for the Thinking Teacher

This is a key resource for early childhood educators, especially those inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach or other inquiry-based, social-constructivist models. It answers the important question teachers face when they come up against challenges in their work with children: "What do I do now?"

List of contents

Part 1: The Child, the Teacher, and Conflict as Gift and Challenge; 1. The Beauty of Conflict; 2. Who Is the Child?; 3. Who Is the Teacher?; 4. The Role of Inner and External Conflict in Teaching and Learning; 5. Challenges to Pedagogical Flow; Part 2: Flexible Protocols: Tools for the Back Pocket of the Thinking Teacher; 6. The Environment and Small Systems; 7. Flow Challenge: Social Conflict; 8. Conversations for the Co-Construction of Theory; 9. Flow Challenge: Cognitive Conflict in Play and Conversation; 10. Flow Challenge: The Project Stalls; 11. The Cardinal Story; 12. Points of Conflict in Children's Research; 13. Flow Challenge: Points of Conflict in Representation; 14. The Clay Horse

About the author

Pam Oken-Wright, M.Ed., is a pedagogical consultant and author who worked with young children as a teacher-researcher for 37 years.

Product details

• Authors: Pam Oken-Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041038290
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103829-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, teacher training, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, EDUCATION / Teaching / General