Sam Meisels
"In early childhood, rewards can take the form of public attention, additional funds for teachers or materials, increased salaries, or improved facilities. Sanctions include holding children back or enrolling them in extra year programs, wresting control of curriculum from teachers, or even program closure" (Meisels, 1992).
Meisels, S. J. (1992). Doing harm by doing good: Iatrogenic effects of early childhood enrollment and promotion policies. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 7, 155–174.
Aisha Ray
'Teacher preparation programs. The failure to adequately prepare teachers who can
educate all children has been identified as evidence of pedagogical, instructional and conceptual problems in teacher preparation'
'Early childhood teacher education programs may through instructional practices, pedagogy and curricula reward and privilege the developmental and educational needs of certain groups of children over others thereby reproducing inequality.'
Early childhood teachers with 5 or more years of experience report (Ray and Bowman, 2003) that they had learned to work effectively with culturally and linguistically different children from the children, families, and other teachers, but not from their teacher training programs.
Ray, A., Bowman, B., & Robbins, J. (2006). Preparing Early Childhood Teachers to Successfully Educate All Children: The Contribution of Four-Year Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs, Report to the Foundation for Child Development, New York, NY.
Project on Race, Class and Culture in Early Childhood, Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
Aisha Ray quote speaks volumes to the needed research in the ECE field. I remember student teaching and all the struggles and rewards that came with it! I love learning about theories and ways to implement them, but without applying them in a real classroom, the theories would have no meaning.
ReplyDeleteI like the quote that Aisha Ray has that the most was learned from field experience than from teacher education training. I have been told this piece of education from many experienced teachers. This shows this is an area that needs work in that of teacher education.
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