Early Childhood Education
We Were Not Built to Break
We Were Not Built to Break: Racially Affirming Care for Black Children, Families, and Communities offers social service and education providers who work with Black children, youth, and families a critical understanding of the ways in which race and racism influence the experiences and outcomes of Black children, youth, and families. This book addresses the documented disproportionate representation of Black families in child welfare systems, where they often face excessive surveillance, family separations, and systemic pathologization. This project seeks to disrupt these problematic narratives by intentionally focusing on the strengths, capacities, and capabilities of Black communities, which have been foundational to their survival for generations.
Most workers who are involved in the lives of Black children—ECEs, CYCs, social workers, teachers, or healthcare providers—are seldom members of Black communities and are trained using perspectives and curriculum that remain culturally and racially irrelevant. Recognizing these challenges, this book seeks to provide current and future practitioners with concise, easily accessible, detailed information that can enhance their engagement with Black families. Dr. Daniel explores the role of ‘race’ as a socially constructed marker in Canada, examines the impact of racism on Black communities, and introduces alternative frameworks that highlight resilience, cultural identity, and community strengths.
We Were Not Built to Break is intended for Child and Youth Care, Social Work, ECE, Teacher Education, and Psychology programs within universities and colleges in Canada.
Features
- Pedagogical features include key terms, case studies, and recommended readings
- Provides students with information about various African-centered theories and practices for assessing, intervening, and supporting Black children, youth, and families
Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada
Moving students’ learning from the traditional indoor classroom to outdoor spaces has proven benefits. It expands student engagement and uptake, promotes mental and physical health, and strengthens students’ awareness of Indigenous ways of knowing as well as environmental issues. Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada takes pre- and in-service teachers and outdoor professionals on a journey that elevates their experience and effectiveness when teaching any curriculum content in an outdoor classroom.
With its focus on curriculum and instruction, this book focuses on ‘where’ students learn, emphasizing the use of outdoor spaces to teach. This book illustrates the many benefits of outdoor learning and how to be successful when educators teach students outside. The voices and perspectives of professional educators and practitioners from across Canada give readers a broad overview of outdoor learning from a variety of viewpoints, including Indigenous voices that ground the topic and provide a basis for connecting to the earth.
This book is intended to inspire teachers, pre-service teachers, outdoor professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts to take their students and clients outside to learn, connect, and grow.
Features:
- A research-informed and practice-based guide to outdoor learning that explores how teaching beyond the classroom can support student engagement, well-being, and meaningful connection to the land
- Pedagogical features include key terms, discussion questions, activities and assignments, recommended readings, and additional resources
- Instructor resources include an instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and a test bank
Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education
Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education challenges dominant discourses about children and childhood by centring marginalized and subjugated voices, experiences, and knowledges. Confronting systemic white supremacy, cis-heteronormativity, ableism, and sanism rooted in developmental psychology, the authors invite educators to imagine new possibilities for understanding children, childhood, and education. The collection explores critical activist knowledges for disrupting developmentalism through contributions from teachers, practitioners, and educators, including narratives and lived experiences. This text will be an invaluable resource for early childhood education, teacher education, and child and youth studies programs in Canadian colleges and universities with courses focusing on child development, equity, diversity, inclusion, critical perspectives, and/or contemporary issues in early childhood education.
Features
- Critiques of the dominance of developmental psychology, specifically developmentalism, that reigns in post-secondary early years and elementary teacher education programs
- Diverse perspectives from educators, practitioners, community advocates, and activists from across the country
- Robust pedagogical features including chapter overviews, end-of-chapter glossaries of key terms, and critical thinking questions
Early Years Education and Care in Canada, Second Edition
Timely and thoroughly updated, the second edition of Early Years Education and Care in Canada explores the histories, philosophies, theories, and approaches that have shaped the ways that we teach and care for children in Canada. Featuring multiple voices and first-hand experiences in the field, contributions from Canadian academics and practitioners engage in theoretical and practical discussions on early childhood education and care.
The new edition of this volume continues to provide readers with a map of the theoretical landscape of early years practice and research and explores newly added topics including common worlds pedagogies, reclaiming Indigenous family systems, supporting Black flourishing in early childhood education and care, critical feminist examination of play, and lived experiences of registered early childhood educators and the Early Childhood Education and Care system.
Readers will explore where we have been, where we are, and where we might go in practice and research related to children and families, making this a fundamental resource for all students, practitioners, and policymakers in early childhood education and care.
FEATURES
- Expands on the first edition’s extensive and balanced examination of the historical and philosophical influences of early childhood education and care
- Includes new chapters on timely topics such as Black childhoods, gender and sexuality, and the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan
- Pedagogically rich, this text features chapter overviews, lists of key terms, and start-of-chapter guiding questions
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Aug 2024
Understanding Mental Health Across Educational Contexts
Promoting Wellness in Classrooms
By Lindsey Jaber
Addictions, Health, and Mental Health / Child and Youth / Counselling / Early Childhood Education / Education / Psychology / Social Work
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Sep 2023
The Role of an Education Assistant, Second Edition
Supporting Inclusion
By Mary Harber, Asha Rao
348 PagesEducation
Sociology of Education
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Dec 2017
The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada
By Xiaobei Chen, Rebecca Raby, Patrizia Albanese
438 PagesChild and Youth / Early Childhood Education / Sociology / Sociology of Education / Sociology of Family / Sociology of Youth
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May 2018
Educators on Diversity, Social Justice, and Schooling
A Reader
By Sonya E. Singer, Mary Jane Harkins
402 PagesEarly Childhood Education / Education / Sociology / Sociology of Education
Early Childhood Education and Care
New Edition Available Now
New Edition Available Now
Aug 2019
Early Years Education and Care in Canada
A Historical and Philosophical Overview
By Susan Jagger
318 PagesEarly Childhood Education / Education
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May 2021
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care
By Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Rachel Berman
214 PagesEarly Childhood Education / Education
Child and Youth Care and Social Work
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Aug 2018
The Mentors Among Us
Cases in the Human Services
By Melissa Rothwell, Kelly Mazerolle
174 PagesChild and Youth / Early Childhood Education / Social Work
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Aug 2017
Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice
By Samantha Wehbi, Henry Parada
240 PagesEarly Childhood Education / Social Work
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