Early Childhood Education for a New Era : Leading for Our Profession, Paperba...

Early Childhood Education for a New Era : Leading for Our Profession, Paperback by Goffin, Stacie G.; Schumann, Mary Jean, RN (FRW), ISBN 0807754609, ISBN-13 9780807754603, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the USGoffin, a former preschool educator who is associated with a company that builds the ability of early childhood education to offer programs and services through leadership capacity and systems-building, examines the history of early childhood education to understand why it has stayed divided as a field of practice and the need for an alternative path in the future. She argues that the field needs to be organized as a professional field of practice, and to do so, leadership is required from all involved. She considers the field's present status and field-unifying strategies, such as the Quality Rating Improvement System and early learning standards; issues associated with forming early childhood education as an organized field of practice, such as separating care from education, a diminished focus on the whole child, and increased costs; and steps to moving forward, including altering individual frames of reference so openness exists, recognizing systemic attitudes and behaviors, convening a microcosm of the field to explore next steps, and building capacity through individual and fieldwide leadership. She concludes with three commentaries from professionals. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()