Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education

Dominic F. Gullo is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of The Lisa and John McNichol Early Childhood Education Lab at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.M. Elizabeth Graue is Sorenson Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

• 1. Characterizing the Scientific Influences in Early Childhood Education 2. Systems Science and its Impact on Early Childhood Education and Care 3. Policy and Political Influences on Early Childhood Education 4. Bioecological Systems Influences on Early Childhood Education 5. Psychological Sciences Impact on Early Childhood Education: Developmental Influences 6. Psychological Sciences Impact on Early Childhood Education: Child’s Mind in Society – A Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education 7. Anthropological Contributions to Early Childhood Education: On Culture, Context and the Construction of the Child 8. A Sociology of Early Childhood Education: Learning to be Civilized 9. The Contributions of Economics to Early Childhood Education and Care 10. The Importance of the Pedagogical Sciences to Early Childhood Education 11. The Critical Contributions of Assessment Science to Early Childhood Education 12. Medical Sciences Influences on Early Childhood Education 13. The Influences of Neuroscience on Early Childhood Education 14. Building a Research Framework – Models, Approaches, Neglected Areas and Next Steps