The Influence of Theorists and Pioneers on Early Childhood Education (Hardcover)

Introduction: The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers Olivia Saracho and Roy Evans Part I: Developmental Theories in Early Childhood Education 1. Theorists and their developmental theories Olivia N. Saracho and Roy Evans 2. Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education Ina Joubert and Giulietta Domenica Harrison 3. Continuing the heritage of Vygotsky as a complexivist: insights from a research project among pre-primary learners in Mauritius Shameem Oozeerally and Helina Hookoomsing 4. Vygotsky’s contributions to understandings of emotional development through early childhood play Yeshe Colliver and Nikolay Veraksa 5. Vygotsky’s theory in-play: early childhood education Larry Smolucha and Francine Smolucha 6. Contemporary principles to lead understandings of children’s learning: synthesizing Vygotsky, Rogoff, Wells and Lindfors Helen Hedges 7. A review of Kohlberg’s theory and its applicability in the South African context through the lens of early childhood development and violence Lynne Goldschmidt, Malose Langa, Daleen Alexander, and Hugo Canham 8. The promise and the practice of early childhood educare in the writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner Jonathan R. H. Tudge, Jessica L. Navarro, Elisa A. Mercon-Vargas, and Ayse Payir 9. The impact of B. F. Skinner’s science of operant learning on early childhood research, theory, treatment, and care Henry D. Schlinger 10. The psychosocial development theory of Erik Erikson: critical overview Jacobus G. Maree 11. Bruno Bettelheim: contradictions, controversies and continuities Philip Garner 12. The contributions of Alfred Adler (1870?1937) to the understanding of early childhood development Enrique B. Arranz-Freijo and Florencia Barreto-Zarza Part II: Pioneers and their Curriculum Programs 13. Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs Olivia N. Saracho and Roy Evans 14. Pestalozzi and pedagogies of love: pathways to educational reform Maura Sellars and David Imig 15. Froebel’s kindergarten and its movement in Germany and the United States Yoko Shirakawa and Olivia N. Saracho 16. Friedrich Froebel: a path least trodden Lynn J. McNair and Sacha Powell 17. Friedrich Froebel: interpolation, extrapolation Mike Watts 18. Montessori as an alternative early childhood education Angeline S. Lillard 19. Math achievement outcomes associated with Montessori education Abha Basargekar and Angeline S. Lillard 20. A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers Aybuke Yurteri Tiryaki, Ezgi Findik, Saliha Cetin Sultano?lu, Esra Beker, Mudriye Yildiz Bicakci, Neriman Aral, and Ece Ozdo?an Bal 21. How do children build knowledge in early childhood education? Susan Isaacs, Young Children Are Researchers and what happens next Jane Murray 22. Sustaining curiosity: Reggio-Emilia inspired learning Isabela Garcia Senent, Kendra Kelley, and Mona M. Abo-Zena 23. How teachers, peers, and classroom materials support children’s inquiry in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool Lauren Westerberg and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler 24. Mikhail Bakhtin: a two-faced encounter with child becoming(s) through dialogue E. Jayne White 25. Waldorf inspired hyper-imaginative learning trajectories: developing new media literacies in elementary education Xanthippi Tsortanidou, Thanasis Daradoumis, and Elena Barbera 26. Seeing infants differently: Magda Gerber’s contributions to the early care and education field and their continuing relevance Ruth Anne Hammond 27. A potpourri of philosophical and child development research-based perspectives as a way forward for early childhood curricula and pedagogy: reconcilable schism or irreconcilable severance? Lisha O’Sullivan and Emer Ring 28. Early childhood theories, ideals and social-political movements, an oral history study of pioneers in the second half of the twentieth century Elly Singer and Sandie Wong