Early childhood education researcher and advocate Emily Clark is back for another conversation with host Heather Bernt-Santy. In this episode, they talk about her work on children's rights in early childhood programs. Here's more from Emily: https://www.earlyedem.com/Have you ordered Heather's book Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood yet? It's available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org or you can order directly from the publisher on the Teachers College Press website
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NERD_0388 Developmental Cascades in Childhood
Join host Heather Bernt-Santy in a conversation with Dr. Zlata Stankovic-Ramirez, Dr. Danielle McLellan-Bujnak, and Dr. Josh Thompson about their work regarding the idea of developmental cascades. The work presents a potential shift in the language used to describe child development as they propose moving away from the traditional ages-and-stages framework and incorporating the
concept of developmental cascades.Have you ordered Heather's book Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood yet? It's available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org or you can order directly from the publisher on the Teachers College Press website
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NERD_0387 Play Pedagogy: The Antidote to GERM (Global Education Reform Movement)
The book The Commodification of American Education: Persistent Threats and Paths Forward includers a powerful chapter written by Denisha Jones in which she writes, "To protect childhood, we must resist GERM and all its manifestations in early childhood education." In this episode, host Heather Bernt-Santy has a conversation with Denisha about what this means, why we need to do more than just resist, and the impacts for children if we do not take action. Have you ordered Heather's book Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood yet? It's available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, or you can order directly from the publisher on the Teachers College Press website.
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NERD_0386 If They Play, Am I Still a Teacher?
For a recent special issue of the early childhood magazine Exchange on protecting play, host Heather Bernt-Santy wrote an article addressing the often asked question, "If I just let children play, how am I still a teacher?" She talks more about this question with Sam Balch.FREE virtual Protecting Play conference: https://hub.exchangepress.com/shop/protecting-play/Have you ordered Heather's book Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood yet? It's available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, or you can order directly from the publisher on the Teachers College Press website.
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NERD_0385 ECE Higher Ed-Preparation for What?
Every now and again, host and early childhood professor Heather Bernt-Santy has a little panic--what if by teaching current ideas, theories about good practice, and new research about working with young children, she's just setting students up to be frustrated or to get in trouble when they work in programs where they don't see what they're learning about in class? In this episode, she talks it through with fellow ECE professor Richard Cohen. Have you ordered Heather's book Using Schema Play Theory to Advocate for Free Play in Early Childhood yet? It's available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, or you can order directly from the publisher on the Teachers College Press website.
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Each week host Heather Bernt-Santy and a member of the ECE Nerd Collective share and discuss a quote with a focus on effecting change in the early learning world.