Early Childhood Education
Curating authentic resources that reflect today’s early childhood classroom
Standards-focused alignment to NAEYC and DAP underscores the importance of educating future early childhood teachers to diverse, inclusive, and nurturing classrooms. Each title in our Early Childhood Education line meets the requirements for these critical standards.
"The information (in this text) is applicable to real-life implementation of curriculum."
–Kari Galer, Monterey Peninsula College
"The Developing Teacher is a meaningful and engaging text that is purposeful to engage students and get them thinking like professionals. I believe it will provide them a lens to go into practicum with a full understanding of the learning environment and their role."
–Marla Pankratz, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Early Childhood Education Titles
A comprehensive overview of human lifespan development from infancy through adolescence using a student-friendly writing style that makes moving theory into application easier to understand.
An invitation to explore the richness and diversity that builds on developmentally effective practices in the early childhood years via an integrated curriculum. Individual academic areas are taught in a spirit of combining or integrating two or more subject areas into one experience that aligns to authentic assessment and standards.
Expressly focused on creativity, this text aims to help current and future early childhood teachers recognize, describe, and apply developmentally appropriate practices in classrooms or other group settings with young children.
Focusing on application and contextualization, this text underscores the critical need to develop childcare programs around a core philosophy of current trends and research in child development.
This worktext highlights current topics in early childhood education such as diversity, equity, trauma, and individualizing learning experiences and fosters developing skills such as working well with others, conversation starters, and understanding professional expectations.
Sharleen Kato
The author of Child and Youth Development shares her thoughts on early childhood education and why she was compelled to write this text. Dr. Kato is a professor at Seattle Pacific University.
"From conception to burgeoning adulthood, a lot happens in the lives of children and teenagers as they grow from infancy to childhood and through adolescence. Each child is an individual with unique characteristics, traits, personalities, and abilities. Children grow and mature, learn, and form relationships in predictable ways but on their own time schedules. They encounter risks and utilize protective factors that enhance their resiliency, the process of adapting to change or adversity. Knowledgeable educators, care, and service providers create contexts for children and adolescents to learn and grow while minimizing the risks and enhancing the protective factors such as nurturing from caregivers that help them thrive.
The Child and Youth Development text stands apart from others in promoting, initiating, and sustaining diversity, inclusion, and equity throughout by sharing the wonders of differences and uniqueness in people. It sets the tone for the text series by embracing constructive dialogue about complex issues such as anti-bias education and does so with intellectual humility and compassion. Specific social issues such as poverty, abuse, and neglect that affect students, teachers, and society as a whole are presented. Racism, prejudice, and bullying are other important topics discussed. Teachers, parents, and caregivers can socialize young students to become productive members of society, shaping values and attitudes needed to be successful in the world."
