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Direct linkLacey E. Peters; Beth Blue Swadener; Marianne N. Bloch – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
This essay brings together three intergenerational colleagues, two RECE founders, and a mid-career colleague, engaged in reciprocal mentorship, collaborative projects, and research focused on child care, critical policy studies, and global childhoods. We explore our encounters with RECE and how we have engaged with, been influenced by, and found…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Intergenerational Programs, Participative Decision Making
Te One, Sarah; Blaikie, Rebecca; Egan-Bitran, Michelle; Henley, Zoey – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Recent social policy discourses in Aotearoa New Zealand focus on vulnerable children's well-being and the detrimental, long-term and costly impacts of child poverty. The discourse pervading much of the policy labels children and young people as "vulnerable" or "at risk" or "in crisis", a view, which we argue, is both…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Welfare, Poverty Programs, Naming
Hewes, Dorothy W. – Young Children, 2010
The author grew up as an Illinois farm girl, born in 1922. Both her mother and her grandmother had been teachers trained in Froebelian progressive education methods, and both knew the value of building on children's interests. At about age 9, she became interested in butterflies and made her own museum, including rocks, butterflies, and insects…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Personal Autonomy, Family Environment, Mothers
Engel, Susan – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this essay, Susan Engel argues that curiosity is both intrinsic to children's development and unfolds through social interactions. Thus, it should be cultivated in schools, even though it is often almost completely absent from classrooms. Calling on well-established research and more recent studies, Engel argues that interactions between…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Activities, Childhood Interests, Teacher Student Relationship
Download full textHenshon, Suzanna E. – Gifted Child Today, 2007
Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She is the current president of the National Association for Gifted Children. Prior to coming to William & Mary, Dr. VanTassel-Baska founded and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern…
Descriptors: Researchers, Talent Development, Gifted, Interviews
Varga-Dobai, Kinga – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Two-time Caldecott Honor winner (Free Fall, Sector 7) and three-time Caldecott Medal winner (Tuesday, The Three Pigs, Flotsam), David Wiesner is regarded as one of the most remarkable creators of visual storytelling living today. Wiesner is well known for his innovative and unique subject matter and his sophisticated painting-like illustrations…
Descriptors: Interviews, Story Telling, Visual Learning, Authors
