CAMPUS EARLY CHILDHOOD LABORATORY SCHOOLS: PARTNERS IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS |
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| Authors: | Jaesook L Gilbert |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Kentucky , Early Childhood Laboratory, #8 Erikson Hall, Lexington , KY 40506‐0050 Phone:;2. 606) 257‐4603 E-mail: jleel ?pop.uky.edu |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Making Theory and Development of Early Childhood Education come alive for elementary master's degree students in two learning sites offers opportunities and challenges. In constructing the class, a primary goal was to expose the students to the context under which early childhood educators developed programs and theories. Also, students were challenged to uncover the relationship that the education of young children had with social change and emerging human rights. Utilizing distance learning, contemporary books such as Who Moved My Cheese (Johnson, 1998) and a field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum and the Rock'n Soul Museum, students developed a sense of the place early childhood education had and continues to have in social change and the advancement of civil rights in this country. |
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| Keywords: | Early childhood teacher education Subject content knowledge Confidence Competence |
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