Category: Early Childhood Education and Context

Resource 1: International Journal of Early Years Education

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669760.2023.2238399

Description: ECE is contextualized in this resource. It addresses the question: What is the purpose of Education? This article defines education and how we experience education informally in our daily lives, nonformally through our habits, and formally through structured teaching including early childhood settings. This article is valuable to early childhood educators in advancing their understanding of the education of young children and the wider field of education.

Resource 2: NAEYC

https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/resources/pubs/dap-4e-ch-3-excerpt.pdf

Context and Developmentally Appropriate Practice

This site addresses context and developmentally appropriate practice. It provides insight into how early childhood educators can adjust their activities, selected materials, learning environments, and interactions to best support individual children. Suggestions are made for setting goals based on the specific circumstances and contexts surrounding each child. This resource includes topics on rethinking context, why context is so important now more than ever, a closer look at different contexts, and the impact of educator context. 







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