Early childhood social studies students deserve to learn in a powerful, in-depth fashion about their interests with teachers who facilitate cognitive and affective growth. Humanistic teachers offer democratic learning experiences characterized by exploration and inquiry within a challenging and caring environment. Growth toward acceptance of all types of diversity and every classmate is featured. Through discussion about social studies topics, learners proceed to graphically represent what they learn. This powerful social studies learning is found in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The tenets, strategies, and approaches are easily transferable and modified to create powerful and exemplar early childhood social studies learning for social rights and social justice. Early childhood is the perfect place to set social justice learning in motion.
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July 01 2006
Early Childhood Social Studies Learning for Social Justice Available to Purchase
Lois McFadyen Christensen
Lois McFadyen Christensen
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Emerald Publishing Limited
2006
Social Studies Research and Practice (2006) 1 (2): 262–267.
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Christensen LM (2006), "Early Childhood Social Studies Learning for Social Justice". Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 262–267, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-02-2006-B0010
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