The Power of Emergent Curriculum: Stories From Early Childhood Settings

Author: Carol Anne Wien  Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children   Date: 2013

Description: Learn About the Power of Emergent Curriculum

This remarkable collection of stories from early childhood settings illustrates what is possible when using an emergent curriculum approach. The stories tackle unusual topics, such as assessing the need for program rules, addressing the impact of a hurricane on classroom design, observing the empathy of toddlers, exploring children’s ideas about sculpture, and appreciating a long-term, multiage project in an after-school program. Overall, what readers witness is a rise in the quality of practice that results when responding to emerging topics.

Responses to each chapter, written by educators whose interests and experiences relate to the topics addressed, add to the content and impact of these stories on the depth of learning that takes place when teachers and children engage in emergent curriculum. These experts include Elizabeth Jones, Margie Carter, Deb Curtis, Marian Marion, Laurie Kocher, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Mary Benson McMullen, Carol Copple, Susan Fraser, Travis Wright, Carolyn Pope Edwards, and Lella Gandini.

These extraordinary stories will inspire early childhood educators to imagine new possibilities in curriculum and learning. - from Amazon

ISBN-10 : 1938113020   ISBN-13 : 978-1938113024

Tags: Instruction Methods, Early Childhood Education, Curricula, Early Childhood, Classroom Management,  Curriculum & Instruction, Education, Education & Teaching, General,