Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators
Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators was an 18-month blog series (January 2018 - May 2019) edited by Stacie G. Goffin, principal of the Goffin Strategy Group. The series engaged diverse viewpoints regarding the field’s thoughts on what needs to be considered in order to disentangle early childhood education’s thorny knot, thereby enabling the ECE field to address three of its most challenging issues: preparation and education, compensation and status, and diversity and inclusivity.
Launched in January 2018, the series’ 31 blogs (excluding the series’ introduction and conclusion) placed a spotlight on the field’s diverse perspectives regarding the entangled relationships among the knot’s three strands. Too often, these issues are addressed as if in opposition to one another. The series strived to transcend this tendency so new possibilities for advancing ECE as field of practice could emerge.
Because of the series’ positive reception, this fall New America will publish the series as a compendium tailored for print and online access. The compendium will include new voices and perspectives and offer ideas about next steps. Look for the publication and an event to continue the conversation the spring of 2020.
Blog posts
- What Will It Take to Disentangle ECE's Thorny Knot? by Stacie G. Goffin - May 14, 2019
- Restructuring ECE to Address its Thorny Knot by Barbara Bowman - April 30, 2019
- Unraveling ECE's Thorny Knot Is Constrained by Its History by Edna Ranck - April 16, 2019
- ECE's Quintessential Equity Challenge by Aisha Ray - April 2, 2019
- What about Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education? Early Childhood Education's Knot Just Got Thornier by Patricia Snyder - March 19, 2019
- Apples and Oranges: Family Child Care Homes Shift the Thorny Knot's Paradigm by Bela Moté - March 5, 2019
- The Work Beneath the Work: What We're Fighting About When We're Fighting About Our Profession by Lauren Hogan - February 19, 2019
- The Field's Leadership Potential is Being Ignored by Anne Douglass - February 5, 2019
- It's All About Social Justice by Nilsa Ramirez - January 22, 2019
- Elephants in the Room: Workforce Respect and Equity by Valora Washington - January 8, 2019
- Options Exist for Addressing ECE's Education-Compensation Dilemma by Phil Acord - December 11, 2018
- Walking a Tightrope and Making the Case for Professionalizing Early Educators by Anna Mercer-McLean - November 27, 2018
- In the Rush to Improve Early Education, Don't Forget About Teachers by Michele Miller-Cox - November 13, 2018
- Let's Get On With This Business! by Carol Brunson Day - October 30, 2018
- Values, Beliefs, & Institutions - What's Needed for Early Educators to Unwind ECE's Thorny Knot? by Sara Mead - October 16, 2018
- Preparing Competent Early Childhood Educators: Is Higher Education Up to the Task? by Tammy Mann - October 2, 2018
- Higher Education Degrees - The Latest ECE Panacea? by Alberto Mares - September 18, 2018
- Is the Cart Being Put Before the Horse? by Fabienne Doucet - September 4, 2018
- Five Non-Negotiables Needed to Move Early Childhood Education Beyonds Its Rhetoric by Marica Cox Mitchell - July 24, 2018
- ECE Degrees as Mirrors by Sally Holloway - July 10, 2018
- Oft-Overlooked Thread Woven into ECE's Thorny Knot by Laura Bornfreund - June 26, 2018
- Let's Be Honest: It's About Sexism, Classism, and Racism by Maurice Sykes - June 12, 2018
- What Exactly Do the Letters B.A. and M.Ed Signify? by Amy Rothschild - May 29, 2018
- Keeping It Real and Optimistic: Will Attaining Bachelor Degrees Bring Rainbows Across the Sky? by Luis A. Hernandez - May 15, 2018
- It's Tough to Step Up Without Steps: Building a Ladder for Family Child Care Providers by Jessica Sager - May 1, 2018
- For Family Child Care Providers, Attaining a Degree Presents Unique Difficulties by Josephine Queen - April 17, 2018
- Degrees and Credentials for Early Childhood Educators - Inching Towards A Consensus? by Albert Wat - April 3, 2018
- Formal Credentials and Degrees - Not Always the Best Starting Point for Early Childhood Teachers by Jamal Berry - March 20, 2018
- In-Home Childcare Providers Need to Step Up to the Importance of Formal Education by Tracy Ehlert - March 6, 2018
- Are Policymakers and Advocates Reducing or Increasing Early Childhood Education's Inequalities? by Sherri Killins Stewart - February 20, 2018
- The Solution for the Workforce Dilemma is the Public Schools by Jason Sachs - February 6, 2018
- Education is a Game Changer for Women as Well as Children by Sue Russell - January 23, 2018
- Introducing a New America Blog Series, by Stacie G. Goffin - January 9, 2018