trends or best practices used in the early childhood care settings of today.
Especially within early childhood education, children learn via active play: interacting with their environment in a physical way rather than only encountering new information via verbal lessons (Hopkins, 2011). Also, Piaget contributed greatly towards the trend of age-appropriate learning experiences, curricula, and classroom design. Piaget also helped to promote the idea that in early childhood especially, learning is not about right or wrong answers but about how a child systematically incorporates new information into their mental maps, challenging each individual to learn, grow, and change (Slavin, n.d.). In early childhood care settings,… Continue Reading...
Early childhood education is instrumental in a child’s life because it facilitates the developmental process. Children learn to develop relationships outside their immediate family; they acquire language, reading, mathematics and science skills even if on only a rudimentary fundamental level; and they begin the process of self-actualization, even at this young age. Early childhood education impacts the child be providing a safe and stable environment in which the child can explore, learn, interact with teachers and peers and observe model behavior that can shape the child’s psychological and behavioral development.… Continue Reading...
of education also requires the diversion of funds to critical services such as early childhood education and equal access to preschool. Closing the achievement gaps means providing all children with equitable access to preschool, and offering all parents equal access to childcare opportunities that help ultimately reduce educational disparities. By reducing disparities early in a child’s life, we can collectively create a more egalitarian society.
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The United States Department of Education is a natural first stop for an online field trip. The No Child Left Behind Act was imperfect but deserves recognition as an important step towards recognizing the needs… Continue Reading...
counts among the biggest responsibilities of present-day society (Sterling, 2002). To achieve the above, environmental education and sensitivity is imperative. But early childhood educational curriculum, including policy, practice and theory of approaches, which emphasizes environmental perspectives, is seriously lacking.
The 1978 Tbilisi Declaration outlines several principles and objectives which demonstrate that ecologising education must promote the idea of students' understanding their natural environment, engaging in critical thinking and active participation, and balancing and recognizing, within their respective communities, the impacts of societal and economic needs on ecological relationships (Tbilisi Declaration 1978). Beginning with one's personal community during early education, the declaration demanded the development of problem-solving ability, knowledge, and environmental sensitivity-related… Continue Reading...
obesity. Obesity programs have been initiated and implemented at the federal and state levels, and all fifty states currently have early childhood education physical activity and healthy eating regulations and policies (The State of Obesity, 2018). All the major national public health research organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health likewise inform and promote obesity-related policies and programs. Government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the USDA also have distinct policies and programs. In spite of the abundance of both private and public funding for anti-obesity research, policy development, and programming, the majority—two-thirds—of American adults are overweight or obese, and… Continue Reading...
