Overview
- Focuses on service learning in early childhood education from an international perspective
- Examines the effects of service learning
- Presents positive outcomes for pre-service teachers, as well as for children and teacher educators
Part of the book series: Educating the Young Child (EDYC, volume 11)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- service learning pedagogy
- interdisciplinary service learning
- cultural competence in teacher education
- teacher education in Sweden
- teacher education in Australia
- literacy centers
- minority students
- literacy tutoring programs
- children of diversity
- pre-service art educators
- problem-solution projects
- science education
- environmental stewardship
- science instruction
- black colleges and universities
- learning and instruction
About this book
This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education. It describes several service learning programs, many of which were developed to better prepare pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in today’s early childhood classrooms, including class size, ever-changing technology, diversity, high-stakes testing, parental involvement (or the lack thereof), and shrinking budgets. The book shares stories of positive outcomes from pre-service teachers who, having participated in service-learning programs, report a shift in their attitudes and beliefs including an increased empathy for others, a heightened sensitivity to student differences, more democratic values, and a greater commitment to teaching. In addition, the book examines the effects of service learning and positive outcomes for children and teacher educators as well.
Schools today face an increasing number of language learners, the mainstreaming of special population students, and working with a standards-driven curriculum. All of these present new challenges for teachers as they attempt to meet their students’ educational needs. As a result of this new classroom environment, and the educational needs they present, teacher educators must now seek different approaches to prepare prospective teachers to meet these needs because the traditional approaches to teacher preparation, such as coursework independent of fieldwork, are no longer effective in equipping teachers to address these issues. This book examines in detail the new approach of service learning.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Service Learning as Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research, and Practice
Editors: Kelly L. Heider
Series Title: Educating the Young Child
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42430-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42428-6Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82579-3Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42430-9Published: 14 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2543-0610
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 236
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction, International and Comparative Education