The lack of industry guidance within early childhood education (ECE) regarding roles and prescribed responsibilities leave privately owned centers to make such decisions independently, especially in the United States. Education Directors (EDs) at Prism Preschool, a young and growing franchise in Texas, are tasked with overseeing curriculum…

If students are to acquire deep learning in science, they need to know about the nature of science (NOS), particularly not only the cognitive-epistemic but also the social-institutional aspects of NOS. In this paper, we investigate the content of the Norwegian science curriculum in order to establish how NOS is represented, in particular to the…

This case study examines the contours of culturally relevant pedagogy in an undergraduate preservice teacher education program for Jewish women. The case describes how the assigned reading of Albarelli's (2000) narrative of teaching in a Hasidic Jewish school, "Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva", disrupts the classroom community,…