From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking: Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum

Broderick, Jane Tingle; Hong, Seong Bock

ISBN 10: 1938113632 / ISBN 13: 9781938113635

Published by The National Association for the Education of Young Children (edition ), 2020

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Synopsis:

This book will be promoted via various NAEYC marketing efforts, including social media pages promotions (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with a reach of over 200K followers); promotional emails; advertisements in Young Children, Teaching Young Children, and Exchange magazines; and NAEYC’s seasonal resource catalogs. Select authors of the publication will also present a webinar on a topic covered in the book soon after its publication. Finally, the publication will be advertised and sold at various early childhood conferences and trade shows (NAEYC’s Annual Conferences, NAEYC’s Professional Learning Institutes, Zero to Three, etc.).

About the Author:

Jane Tingle Broderick is professor of early childhood education at East Tennessee State University where she co-coordinates the early childhood PhD program and the early childhood education emergent inquiry certificate program. She has taught in early childhood for over twenty years. Her research focuses on emergent curriculum and Reggio-inspired practices. She has published articles and chapters on teacher development with emergent curricular practices, as well as documentation and the arts.

Jane is also a visual artist with a BFA from Pratt Institute. She exhibited widely in Massachusetts where she also won two state art fellowships. In her doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts she served as an atelierista and documentarian at the Reggio-inspired Early Childhood Laboratory School. She and her colleague Seong Bock Hong have been developing and working with the Cycle of Inquiry System (COI), a tool for teaching inservice and preservice teachers to plan and implement emergent curriculum, for several years in their teaching and research projects. They have previously presented their processes with teaching and researching using the COI at NAEYC conferences. Materials explorations are central to their COI research and practice.

Jane lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, with her husband who is a woodworker. They have two children who are both committed to working with the earth through sustainable landscaping and farming.

Seong Bock Hong is professor of early childhood education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she teaches graduate and undergraduate early childhood courses. She was the faculty director of the Early Childhood Education Center, which is a university lab school from 2012 to 2017, and has been the primary faculty curriculum and pedagogical leader in the early childhood teacher preparation program for 20 years. During her doctoral program at the university of Massachusetts, Amherst, she served as an interim director and documentarian at the Reggio-inspired and constructivist Early Childhood Laboratory School. Her research interests have focused on the exploration and development of Reggio Emilia–inspired educational systems and tools such as the Cycle of Inquiry System (COI) that guide pedagogical documentation practices in emergent curriculum planning approaches to early childhood education. She has published articles and chapters on teacher development, Reggio Emilia–inspired inclusion practice, as well as documentation pedagogy and the role of technology as a knowledge construction tool.

Her recent notable collaboration work was hosting “The Wonder of Learning—Hundred Languages of Children” exhibition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from June through August 2017. She has received a number of awards for her record of distinguished professional achievement, including the inaugural Rosalyn Saltz collegial professorship award in 2012 and the University of Michigan Diversity Leadership award in 2010. She begins her tenure in October 2019 as the president of the Association for Constructivist Teaching organization.

Seong Bock lives in Novi, Michigan, with her husband, a retired chemistry professor. They have two children who are working professionals in medicine and engineering.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: From Children's Interests to Children's ...
Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (edition )
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good