Early Childhood Education Resources

This article provides a look into a community and the contexts in which young children are growing and learning. Then, it describes a journey toward social justice advocacy and the process through which a knowledge-rich curriculum is designed to support positive identity development of the students and community.

This article describes the collaboration between teachers and researchers designing a translanguaging space where bilingual children and their families could explore the linguistic and cultural practices that they engage in at home.

This article discusses the value of using authentic picture books about the refugee experience to enrich young learners. Because challenging content is presented in both images and words, picture books are especially useful in helping young children understand complicated issues like the global refugee crisis.

Developing a sense of place through geographic experiences helps build the social and emotional foundation children need and will one day use as adults. When teachers implement geography projects and investigations with the goal of increasing children's connections with their physical environments, children enhance their cognitive skills as well as social and emotional ones.

Children's literature in early childhood social studies Responding to cultural and linguistic diversity demands a well-planned and well-implemented social studies curriculum that enhances young children's emerging understanding about past and present issues and events that affect their lives and their communities.