Child, Family, School, and Community Relationships

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2019

Pages: 176

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Child, Family, School, and Community Relationships explores key issues in early childhood education and family engagement, including effective communication with families, preschool suspensions and expulsions, educational equity, literacy development, child welfare, mental health, technology, cultural representation, immigrant and adoptive families, school policies, and practical strategies for supporting young children's learning and development.

Chapter 1 Family Involvement-Engagement-Effective Communication
Chapter 2 What Are Some Alternatives for Families Who Are Unable to Come to School?
Chapter 3 Is It Separation Anxiety or a Parent Holding On?
Chapter 4 Why Are So many Black Preschoolers Being Suspended?
Chapter 5 Black Preschoolers Being Suspended and Expelled
Chapter 6 Are Black Preschool Suspensions and Expulsions Directly Connected to the Preschool to Prison Pipeline?
Chapter 7 Review of the Hechinger Report: This is Never Too Early
Chapter 8 Grandparents Make a Big Difference in Children’s Lives
Chapter 9 The Value of Indian Reservation Schools That We Are Missing
Chapter 10 Shocking Experiences Part 1
Chapter 11 Shocking Experiences Part 2
Chapter 12 Enhancing Literacy Experiences through Rap Music and Hip Hop
Chapter 13 What Is Lunch Shaming? How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 14 Immigrant Children
Chapter 15 So Have You Lost Your Mind?-Child Abuse
Chapter 16 Student Walkouts-Where Are We Headed?
Chapter 17 Teachers Striking
Chapter 18 Appropriate or Inappropriate: My Opinion Does Matter
Chapter 19 Do You Know the Signs of Suicide?
Chapter 20 Preschoolers and Corporal Punishment
Chapter 21 What About Adoption and Families?
Chapter 22 Black Girls: Encouraging Them to Read through Representation
Chapter 23 So You Don’t Say Part 1
Chapter 24 So You Don’t Say-Part 2
Chapter 25 So You Don’t Say Part 3
Chapter 26 Children’s Books to Share-Resources or Just because. . .
Chapter 27 Who Really Cares About the Children?
Chapter 28 Songs I Forever Remember From Childhood
Chapter 29 The Truth about Technology and Young Children
Chapter 30 What Early Childhood Teachers Say About Technology

Appendix A The International Teddy Bear Project
Appendix B International Teddy Bear Project
Appendix C How to Duplicate the International Teddy Bear Project-“Doing Your Own Project.”

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes is Professor Emerita of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. She joined UNI in 1978 and spent more than four decades preparing future educators while advancing multicultural education and cultural understanding across the university. Growing up in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, she overcame significant barriers to earn a doctorate in teaching and dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusive education.

Child, Family, School, and Community Relationships explores key issues in early childhood education and family engagement, including effective communication with families, preschool suspensions and expulsions, educational equity, literacy development, child welfare, mental health, technology, cultural representation, immigrant and adoptive families, school policies, and practical strategies for supporting young children's learning and development.

Chapter 1 Family Involvement-Engagement-Effective Communication
Chapter 2 What Are Some Alternatives for Families Who Are Unable to Come to School?
Chapter 3 Is It Separation Anxiety or a Parent Holding On?
Chapter 4 Why Are So many Black Preschoolers Being Suspended?
Chapter 5 Black Preschoolers Being Suspended and Expelled
Chapter 6 Are Black Preschool Suspensions and Expulsions Directly Connected to the Preschool to Prison Pipeline?
Chapter 7 Review of the Hechinger Report: This is Never Too Early
Chapter 8 Grandparents Make a Big Difference in Children’s Lives
Chapter 9 The Value of Indian Reservation Schools That We Are Missing
Chapter 10 Shocking Experiences Part 1
Chapter 11 Shocking Experiences Part 2
Chapter 12 Enhancing Literacy Experiences through Rap Music and Hip Hop
Chapter 13 What Is Lunch Shaming? How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 14 Immigrant Children
Chapter 15 So Have You Lost Your Mind?-Child Abuse
Chapter 16 Student Walkouts-Where Are We Headed?
Chapter 17 Teachers Striking
Chapter 18 Appropriate or Inappropriate: My Opinion Does Matter
Chapter 19 Do You Know the Signs of Suicide?
Chapter 20 Preschoolers and Corporal Punishment
Chapter 21 What About Adoption and Families?
Chapter 22 Black Girls: Encouraging Them to Read through Representation
Chapter 23 So You Don’t Say Part 1
Chapter 24 So You Don’t Say-Part 2
Chapter 25 So You Don’t Say Part 3
Chapter 26 Children’s Books to Share-Resources or Just because. . .
Chapter 27 Who Really Cares About the Children?
Chapter 28 Songs I Forever Remember From Childhood
Chapter 29 The Truth about Technology and Young Children
Chapter 30 What Early Childhood Teachers Say About Technology

Appendix A The International Teddy Bear Project
Appendix B International Teddy Bear Project
Appendix C How to Duplicate the International Teddy Bear Project-“Doing Your Own Project.”

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes is Professor Emerita of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. She joined UNI in 1978 and spent more than four decades preparing future educators while advancing multicultural education and cultural understanding across the university. Growing up in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, she overcame significant barriers to earn a doctorate in teaching and dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusive education.