Seen and Heard: Children's Rights in Early Childhood Education (Early Childhood Education Series) - Softcover

Hall, Ellen Lynn; Rudkin, Jennifer Kofkin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080775160X ISBN 13: 9780807751602

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2011

Synopsis

Using examples from a Reggio-inspired school with children from ages 6 weeks to 6 years, the authors emphasize the importance of children’s rights and our responsibility as adults to hear their voices. Seen and Heard summarizes research and theory pertaining to young children’s rights in the United States, and offers strategies educators can use to ensure the inclusion of children’s perspectives in everyday decisions. Real-life classroom vignettes illustrate how young children perceive the idea of rights through observation and discussion. The authors’ work is based on three essential ideas: (1) the “one hundred languages” children use for exploring, discovering, constructing, representing, and conveying their ideas; (2) the “pedagogy of listening,” in which children and adults carefully attend to the world and to one another; (3) the notion that all children have the right to participate in the communities in which they reside. This vivid portrait of emergent curriculum includes: Classroom experiences, including building a city for the classroom hamster and authoring a school charter on children’s rights. Provocative discussion questions for professional development. Photographs of children at play and examples of children’s work.

About this title

About the Author

Ellen Lynn Hall is Executive Director of Boulder Journey School and Director of the Boulder Journey School Teacher Education Program in partnership with the University of Colorado Denver. Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin teaches in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Denver.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080775160X
• ISBN 13: 9780807751602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144