Nature Education with Young Children

Integrating Inquiry and Practice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-65589-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

Nature Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resourcethat blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book’s guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education:

•The power and value of equity and access to nature education•Effective teaching encompasses child development domains and integrates ECE curriculum •Children learn best through inquiry-based and child-centered teaching•Powerful teaching is founded upon teacher inquiry and reflection.
Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner.Nature Education with Young Childrenstrives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meier, Daniel R.

Sisk-Hilton, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Vorschul- und Kindergartenpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I —Science, Nature, and Inquiry: Theoretical and Practical Foundations
Chapter 1: Science, Nature, and Inquiry-Based Learning in Early Childhood, Stephanie Sisk-Hilton
Chapter 2: Nature Education and Teacher Inquiry, Daniel Meier
Part II — Science, Nature, and Inquiry: Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 3: Babies and Nature — The Act of Noticing in Infancy, Camille T. Dungy
Chapter 4: Promoting Nature Study for Toddlers, Mabel Young
Chapter 5: Overcoming Our Fears — Embarking on a Nature Journey, Gita Jayewardene

Part III Science, Nature, and Inquiry — Preschoolers
Chapter 6: Naturally Speaking: Parents, Children, Teachers in Dialogue with Nature, Darcy Campbell and Shawna Thompson
Chapter 7: Preschool Children Explore the Forest — The Power of Wild Places in Childhood, Anna Golden
Chapter 8: Putting the Forest on the Map — Using Documentation to Further Natural Inquiry, Marty Gravett
Chapter 9: Nature Education and the Project Approach, Jean A. Mendoza and Lilian G. Katz
Chapter 10: Promoting Play in a School Garden and Using a Blog to Document Children's Nature Explorations, Heather Taylor
Chapter 11: Drawing, Photographs, and Painting — Learning about the Natural World in an Urban Preschool, Isauro Michael Escamilla

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Daniel R. Meier is Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University. Dr. Meier is Co-Editor of Voices of Practitioners, the only national and international journal publishing ECE teacher research.
Dr. Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University.