That Early Childhood Nerd
If you love thinking deeply about childhood, early childhood education, caring for children, and supporting children’s right to play, this is the podcast for you! Each week, host and self-proclaimed early childhood nerd Heather Bernt-Santy invites practitioners, writers, and thinkers who share her commitment to doing the very best we can for children, their caregivers and teachers, and their families to discuss big ideas, real life practices, and cool research. Let’s get nerdy!
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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
In addition to his work as Chief Interpreter and Translator for Anji Play founder Ms. Cheng Xueqin, Jesse Coffino has also authored numerous articles and essays on the history and practice of the Anji Play Approach, including “The Anji Play Ecology of Early Learning” (Childhood Education, Vol. 95, No. 1). Jesse has lectured on the historical significance of the work of Ms. Cheng and the educators of Anji County, China at organizations and institutions including Google, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and BRAC. Jesse works closely with Ms. Cheng to translate the ideas and concepts of Anji Play for a global audience. Together they have identified pilot programs and cultivated practice leaders in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
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Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Miriam Beloglovsky is a professor of early childhood education, sought-after public speaker, CEO of Playful Transformation, and author. Play is her passion, as she works to ensure that all children have equitable access to play.
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Dale Farran, Professor Emerita at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, joins the show to discuss her groundbreaking longitudinal study into the efficacy of PreK in Tennessee, and what the results tell us about what preschool should be.https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079406041/researcher-says-rethink-prek-preschool-prekindergarten
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Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Carol Garboden Murray! Lizz Nolasco! Tiffany Pearsall! These women bring their brilliant minds and passionate souls to the show for a conversation about "developmentally appropriate practices," doing no harm, reflecting intentionally and boldly advocating for children's right to childhood, healthy diets for play and learning, and hyper-caffeinated podcast descriptions...
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Samuel Broaden of Honoring Childhood is here to talk about weapon play, community, and being willing to be uncomfortable in our work with young children.
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Vivien Geneser (editor) and Josh Thompson (contributor) join Heather to discuss the brilliant collection of essays covering 16 theorists from "diverse spaces to see what they each have to say about play" in the book Scholarly Snapshots: The Importance of Child Play as a Human Right."
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Author and playspace designer Rusty Keeler drops in to discuss this quote from his book "Adventures in Risky Play: What is Your Yes?"“And yet, I also understand that in a modern world full of pressures and constraints on children’s time in and out of school, something as obvious as play needs some scientific support and lobbying from adults who care enough to recognize that somehow without us looking, good old-fashioned free play has been limited, sidelined, sublimated, and even decimated for way too. many children in our busy, high-achieving, over-stimulated, over-scheduled, over-protected, overly biased, overly adult-oriented view of what children should be doing, accomplishing, competing and completing.”
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Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Richard Cohen and Mike Huber lead the discussion regarding curiosity and humility around the idea of cultural diversity.
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
In the book "Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children," Michael Gramling writes about child care as a human right and offers a challenge to those of us in the field of early care and education: "If the early childhood workforce wishes to participate in meaningful change to bring about child care justice, we must be engaged in the broader movement for racial justice."
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Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Yay! Family child care provider and brilliant respecter-of-childhood Melinda Marshall joins the show this week to talk about the importance of adults understanding their own childhood trauma, stress and relationships to help support children's emotional development.
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