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Wright, Travis – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
The purpose of this investigation is to deepen understanding of the clandestine professional lives of men who care for young children, exploring the pressure to hide parts of themselves experienced by many. The author utilizes an autoethnographic approach to examine social and psychological experiences he has navigated during his work as a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Caregiver Attitudes, Professional Identity
Nikiforidou, Zoi – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
Taking risks and enjoying challenges are fundamental to the lives of young children from a developmental and evolutionary point of view. However, in modern societies, increasing concern about dangers and injuries has led to the escalation in regulation and provisions for the safety of young children. This intent to establish secure and risk-free…
Descriptors: Risk, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Instruction
Hadley, Fay – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
There is a growing body of literature about the potential for early childhood settings to serve as community hubs to develop relationships with families. However, there is limited information about the ways in which families and early childhood staff interface in defining what constitutes "quality" within settings. Researchers have…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Child Care
Ejuu, Godfrey – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
Knowledge of the history and development of early childhood development in Uganda is paramount if we are to know how far we have come and where we are going. This article explores the introduction of early childhood development in Ugandan policy and government interventions from 1960 to 2011. Data was obtained from a review of available early…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Conference Papers, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Clark, Beverley – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
This article examines small-scale research into what passion might mean to early childhood teachers in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. The catalyst for this research was twofold: Moyles' work in the United Kingdom on passion, professionalism and paradox, and the author's personal encounters with the distinct views in the teaching community on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Likert Scales
Giugni, Miriam – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This article shares a story about an "activist" early childhood teacher encountering the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Specifically, it focuses on the overarching concepts of "belonging" and "becoming" through the EYLF's call for early childhood educators to engage with theory in their everyday practice. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Preschool Teachers
Ortlipp, Michelle; Arthur, Leonie; Woodrow, Christine – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
In Australia, as elsewhere, many factors have contributed to making the struggle for recognition of the professional status of early childhood difficult and ongoing. Arguably this has led to instabilities surrounding professional identity and how members of the field regard themselves and their work. The development and release of the Early Years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Recognition, Status
Bialostok, Steve; Kamberelis, George – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
"New capitalism" has been characterized as an economic period in which insecurity, flux, and uncertainty exist in the workplace. Capitalism attempts to tame that uncertainty through risk taking. Taking risks has become what one must do with risk. Economic discourses of embracing risk--thoroughly grounded in the ideologies of neoliberalism--are…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Freedom, Early Childhood Education, Ideology
Moon, Kyunghee; Reifel, Stuart – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
This study explores a teacher's understandings of the role of play and her use of play in literacy learning serving children from diverse language backgrounds. The participants in this study were a public pre-kindergarten teacher and her class. Data were collected from interviews, informal conversations, observations, and self-reflexive notes. The…
Descriptors: Play, Creative Activities, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Niles, Michael D.; Byers, Lisa G. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
This article discusses the degree to which early childhood practitioners in the United States attend to cultural differences and social injustice in their pedagogy, with a particular reference to indigenous peoples. The article has three major sections. The first describes an indigenous perspective regarding "improvement" and "quality" with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, American Indians, Young Children, Educational Research
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
This article explores how child care acts as a zone of governance for immigrant young children, enacted through discourses of multiculturalism implied to be flexible and open. It draws on an analysis of early childhood educators' interpretations and understandings of their own practices when working with racialized young immigrant children and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Young Children, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
Cheeseman, Sandra – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
Growing international interest in the early childhood years has been accompanied by an expansion of public programs in Australia targeting young children and their families. This article explores some of the influences and rhetoric that frame these initiatives. It encourages critical examination of the discourses that shape the nature of early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Apple, Peggy; McMullen, Mary Benson – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
In this article the authors explore the need for early childhood practitioners and scholars to engage in joint problem solving to create and support early childhood education and care (ECEC) professional development systems in which all constituents benefit. Primary constituent groups and principal decision-making bodies are defined and analyzed,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Professional Development, Teacher Qualifications
Manning-Morton, Julia – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
This article puts forward the idea that in order to sufficiently meet the needs of very young children and thereby develop quality provision, early years practitioners must develop a professional approach that combines personal awareness with theoretical knowledge. It argues that the development of such abilities is enabled in process-oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Preschool Teachers
Edwards, Suzy – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
The discourse and concepts associated with sociocultural theory have become increasingly important in discussion associated with early childhood education and curriculum at a theoretical level since the early 1990s. However, the extent to which such ideas have been adopted and understood by early childhood educators at the level of practice…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Sociocultural Patterns, Preschool Teachers
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