Relationship-Based Care for Infants and Toddlers - Susan L. Recchia, Minsun Shin, Eleni Loizou

Relationship-Based Care for Infants and Toddlers

Fostering Early Learning and Development Through Responsive Practice
Buch | Hardcover
144 Seiten
2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6891-4 (ISBN)
145,90 inkl. MwSt
Learn how to create and nurture communities of care for diverse children, families, and practitioners through responsive practice. In this text, the social and emotional worlds of babies and toddlers, their peers, and their caregivers come to life in the everyday moments of infant-toddler care and education. The authors show infants and toddlers as active, agentic, and intentional social partners from the start of life, highlighting their unique capacities for social engagement with both adults and peers. Interwoven within each chapter’s narrative are insights culled from extensive observations, teacher interviews, and video analyses. Part I emphasizes play, peer friendships, and humor as essential elements of infant learning, illustrated throughout with anecdotes of praxis in early care and education settings. Building on these aspects of babies’ ways of being in group care, Part II examines the complex roles of infant-toddler professionals and the critical importance of supportive and caring environments. Readers will explore the elements needed for in-depth and specialized professional preparation, including overarching principles of relationship-based practice.


Book Features:




Illuminates particular and understudied ways that infants and toddlers actively contribute to their own social learning and development.
Shares how teachers learn to engage with and nurture infants’ and toddlers’ social capacities and experiences within child care settings.
Uses anecdotes and vignettes from the authors’ research and practice with infants, toddlers, and caregivers to bring their experiences to life.
Discusses themes that are important and unique for infancy and toddlerhood, such as play, friendships, humor, and professional love.
Presents a unique set of chapters that reveal infants’ and toddlers’ perspectives, while also considering the caregiver’s actions within a responsive care framework.

Susan L. Recchia is a professor emeritus in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Minsun Shin is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University. Eleni Loizou is a professor in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Education Program at the University of Cyprus.

Contents


Foreword Mary Benson McMullen  ix


1.  The Social and Emotional World of Infant–Toddler Childcare  1

Introduction  1

The Power of Relationships as a Context for Social and Emotional Learning  5

Overarching Principles That Guide Relationship-Based Practice  6

Overview With Brief Chapter Descriptions  7

Chapter Summary  9


Part I: Distinctive Infant–Toddler Social Encounters in Childcare


2.  Infant–Toddler Play as an Essential Component of Early Learning and Development  13

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Ways of Learning  13

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Play Experiences  15

Infant–Toddler Play Practices and the Caregiver Role  22

Discussion Questions  29


3.  Friendships Among Infant–Toddler Peers  30

Infant–Toddler Friendships  31

Friendship Experiences and Sociocultural Context  36

Infant–Toddler Caregiving to Support Friendships and Social Experiences  39

Discussion Questions  42


4.  Creative Social Exchanges: Infant–Toddler Humor  43

Humor Definition and Theories  43

Peer Social Encounters as a Catalyst for Humor Development  50

Classroom Learning Environments and Caregiver Roles Support Humor  52

Discussion Questions  57


Part II: Creating Interpersonal Environments That Support Responsive Care


5.  The Complex Role of Infant–Toddler Professionals: Care, Love, Diversity, and Identities  61

Bringing Care, Education, and Love Together  62

Contemplating Emotional Labor  66

Appreciating Diverse Lived Experiences  69

Discussion Questions  73


6.  Becoming an Infant–Toddler Teacher: Ways of Thinking and Ways of Being  74

Relationship-Based Care and the Primary Care System  75

Being With and Learning From Infants and Toddlers  77

Becoming an Infant–Toddler Practitioner Within a Supportive Learning Community  82

Discussion Questions  90


7.  Constellations of Care: Building Caring Infant–Toddler Communities  91

Constellations of Caring/Ethic of Care  92

Valuing Inclusive Practice/Honoring Differences  96

Respecting and Supporting New and Continuing Transitions  98

Capitalizing on Opportunities to Build Community Among Staff, Children, and Families  100

Making Administrative and Policy Decisions That Reflect Relationship-Based Practice  102

Discussion Questions  104


8.  Enduring Reflections for the Field of Infant–Toddler Care and Education  105

Infants and Toddlers as Being and Becoming  105

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Rights to Responsive and Loving Care  107

Infant–Toddler Care as a “Home” for Fostering Community and Subjective Well-Being  109

Concluding Thoughts  110


References  111


Index  127


About the Authors  133

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Early Childhood Education Series
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Nancy File
Vorwort Mary Benson McMullen
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 235 mm
Gewicht 286 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Vorschulpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8077-6891-X / 080776891X
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6891-4 / 9780807768914
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