Rethinking learning in early childhood education

Rethinking early childhood education

Embracing social justice in early childhood education ; Language matters / What color is beautiful? / Why an anti-bias curriculum? / Developmental themes, tasks, and goals in anti-bias work / Raising issues of race with young children / Using persona dolls to help children develop anti-bias attitudes / Miles of aisles of sexism : helping students investigate toy stores / Where are the game girls? / Rethinking 'The Three Little Pigs' / What if all the kids were white? : anti-bias themes for teaching young children / Unwrapping the holidays : reflections on a difficult first year / Scripted prescription : a cure for childhood / What about play? / Confession : my students play in the classroom-- and it's good for them / Playing with gender / Cybertots : technology and the preschool child / Why we banned Legos : exploring power, ownership, and equity in the classroom / 'Lego fascists' (that's us) Vs. Fox News / Editors of Rethinking School Magazine -- 'I just want to read Frog and Toad' / Tuning in to violence : students use math to analyze what TV is teaching them / Talking with children about war and peace / Testing tots : why we need a better means of evaluating our nation's children / Testing Lang ; Think less benchmarks : a flawed test does more harm than good / From critique to possibility : New Zealand's radical approach to assessment / Pedagogy for ecology ; Bringing the Earth home : professional development on ecology / Don't know much about natural history : education as a barrier to nature / Food is not for play / Lessons from a garden spider : how Charlotte transformed my classroom / Holding Nyla : lessons from an inclusion classroom / Fairness first : learning from Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges / Staying past Wednesday : helping kids deal with death and loss / Welcoming Kalenna : making our students feel at home / Holiday lessons learned in an early childhood classroom / Strawberry fields forever? : an early childhood teacher draws on her past to teach children of migrant farmworkers / Talking the talk : integrating indigenous languages into a Head Start classroom / Heather's moms got married / Bringing the lives of lesbian and gay people into our programs / Activism brings us power : an interview with Hilda Magaña / Who cares for our children? : the childcare crisis in the other America / It's all our business : what fighting for family-friendly policies could mean for early childhood educators / Improving conditions and status for early childhood and educators / Caught in a quagmire : the effort to improve wages and working conditions for childcare teachers / 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for racism and sexism / Music for social justice / Books and multimedia resources -- Organizations and websites.