Troubled Relationships in Early Childhood Education: Parent-Teacher Interactions in Ethnoculturally Diverse Child Care Settings.
TROUBLED RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Parent-Teacher Interactions in Ethnoculturally Diverse Child Care Settings. Judith K. Bernhard, Marie Louis Lefebvre, Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Gyda Chud, & Rika Lange. Early Education and Development, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1998): 5-28. Interviews with Canadian child care workers and minority parents showed that...

Inside role play in early childhood education; researching young children's perspectives.
9780415404976 Inside role play in early childhood education; researching young children's perspectives. Rogers, Sue and Julie Evans. Routledge 2008 140 pages $42.95 Paperback LB1139 Rogers (education, Institute of Education, University of...

Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education: Research Into Practice.
FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Research Into Practice. Jennifer Prior & Maureen R. Gerard. 2007. 316 pp. (Available from: Delmar Thomson Publishing, Clifton Park, NY.) The authors emphasize the differences among American families today and suggest taking into consideration these differences when planning a family involvement program that...

Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education.
PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Alice S. Honig. 1979. 105 pp. (Available from: National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC.) This classic work examines existing program models and methods aimed at promoting parental involvement in early child development and education. Included are discussions of issues,...

Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education.
FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Heather B. Weiss, Margaret Caspe, & M. Elena Lopez (Spring 2006). www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/ publications-resources/family-involvement-in-early-childhood-education. This brief synthesizes research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to young children's learning and development. It also summarizes the latest evidence on effective involvement. Early childhood initiatives can emphasize...

Karen Juncker Albert honored by Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence in Early Childhood Education.
Karen Juncker Albert, Director of Early Childhood Education at Temple Bat Yahm in New York, has recently been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence in Early Childhood Education. Albert is a longtime member of the Association for Childhood Eduation International. Albert's expertise is in curriculum development,...

The Routledge reader in early childhood education.
9780415451529 The Routledge reader in early childhood education. Ed. by Elizabeth Wood. Routledge 2008 338 pages $45.95 Paperback LB1139 Most of the 17 journal articles and book chapters were first published...

The health and wellbeing of adults working in early childhood education.
Introduction A HEALTHY EARLY CHILDHOOD workforce is an important aspect of early childhood education services. According to the Ministry of Education (2004) there are approximately 13,000 adults employed in New Zealand early childhood education settings, but little is known about their current health status or concerns. For...

Gender sensitive teaching: a reflective approach for early childhood education teacher training programs.
Educators in the 1990's began to notice that boys from all socio-economic and racial groups were not keeping pace, with African-American and Latino boys most at risk. One disappointing evidence came from demonstrated gaps in literacy between girls and boys, reaching 24 points by 12th grade, with the gaps...

Early childhood education policy.
INTRODUCTION This article provides a Ministry of Education commentary on the policy framework for early childhood education (ECE). It responds to concerns about the policy framework raised in Munford et al.'s "Blending Whanau/Family Development, Parent Support and Early Childhood Education (1) Programme" that the policy framework for...