Reframing the Emotional Worlds of the Early Childhood Classroom [Hardcover]

This volume examines the emotional world of the early childhood classroom as it affects young children (whose emotional wellbeing is crucial to successful learning), educators (for whom teaching is never a solely cognitive act), parents, and administrators. In a culture where issues such as bullying and teacher burnout comprise major challenges to student success, this book brings together diverse voices (researchers, practitioners, children, and parents) and multiple perspectives (theoretical and personal) to refocus attention on the pivotal role of emotion in schools.

To do so, editors Samara Madrid, David Fernie, and Rebecca Kantor envision emotion as a dynamic, fluid, and negotiated construct, performed and produced in the daily lives of children and adults alike. A nuanced yet cohesive analysis, Reframing the Emotional Worlds of the Early Childhood Classroomthus presents a challenge to the overriding concern with quantifiable classroom achievement that increasingly threatens to push the emotional lives of classroom participants to the margins of educational and public discourse.

Chapter 2: A family, a fire, and a framework: Emotions in an anti-bias school community. Caryn Park, Debbie LeeKeenan, and Heidi Given

Commentary: Patricia Ramsey

Chapter 3: Guinea pigs, Aspergers Syndrome, and my son: When teachers struggle to recognize humanity. Steve Bialostok

Commentary: Margarita Bianco

Chapter 4: Food fight: Difficult negotiations between adults in an early childhood center. Susan Twombly

Commentary: Tamar Jacobson

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