Family/Community Contexts and the Problem of Half-Truths in Early Childhood Education

[...]they also become fertile ground for teacher biases when family and community habits deviate from teachers' assumptions about healthy families or acceptable behavior (personal communication, 2022). The Half-Truth of Relation-Based Teaching The universal bio-psychological growth and communit...

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Published inYC young children Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 42 - 49
Main Author Cooper, Patricia ("Patsy") M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Association for the Education of Young Children 01.10.2023
Subjects
Child development
Children & youth
Classrooms
Cognitive development
Communication
Community centers
Curricula
Early childhood education
Educational technology
Families & family life
Learning
Low income groups
Middle class
Preschool education
Teacher education
Teaching
Young Children
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Summary:[...]they also become fertile ground for teacher biases when family and community habits deviate from teachers' assumptions about healthy families or acceptable behavior (personal communication, 2022). The Half-Truth of Relation-Based Teaching The universal bio-psychological growth and community identity are essential components of high-quality preschool and primary programs. - Just as importantly, relation-based teaching sets the stage to enhance (or deprive) children's cognitive development in school, as evidenced by teachers investing in and nurturing the academic achievement of all children, including Black and Brown children and children from families with low income. [...]teachers' embodiment of the relation-based teaching model is undermined-becomes a half-truth-for Bowman when teachers implicitly or explicitly demonstrate they do not value the family/community contexts of Black and Brown children and children from families with low income that influence their physical, psychosocial, and cognitive development-contexts that clash with White, Western, and middle-class expectations of home and community life.
ISSN:1538-6619
1941-2002