Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

Jennifer J. Mueller is Dean of the School of Education at St. Cloud State University, USA.Nancy File is Kellner Professor of Early Childhood Education at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.

• 1. Curriculum and Research: What Are the Gaps We Ought to Mind, Redux 2. Public Policy and Early Childhood Curriculum in the United States 3. Standards, Correlations, and Questions: Examining the Impact of The Accountability Regime on Early Childhood Curriculum 4. From Theory to Curriculum: Developmental Theory and Its Relationship to Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education 5. The Curriculum Theory Lens on Early Childhood: Moving Thought into Action 6. Engaging with Critical Theories and the Early Childhood Curriculum 7. Infant-Toddler Curriculum: Reconsider, Refresh, and Reinforce 8. Unpacking the Tensions in Open-Ended Preschool Curriculum: Teacher Agency, Standardization and English Learners in Creative Curriculum and High/Scope 9. Re-examining Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum 10. A Story about Story: The Promise of Multilingual Children and Teachers and a Framework for Integrated Curriculum 11. Changing the Discourse: The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education 12. Countering the Essentialized Discourse of Curriculum: Opening Spaces for Complicated Conversations 13. A Vision of Early Childhood Curriculum Built on Strong Foundations 14. Reclaiming and Rediscovering in Early Childhood Curriculum: Possibility and Promise

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