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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Episodes
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
In his new book, Inclusion Includes Us: Building Bridges and Removing Barriers in Early Childhood Classrooms, Mike Huber talks about "multiple experts" who can contribute to a sense of belonging, including the child as expert. Listen in as he and Heather talk it through.
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Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Tiffany and Heather revisit the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project as described in Louise Derman Sparks' article, "What I Learned form the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project: A Teacher's Reflections." It's a fascinating retelling of what was measured, what was not considered, and whether they really used that Bank Street College curriculum.
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Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
In this episode, Mike Huber shares the story of observing and supporting a young boy's struggle to enter a classroom with two substitute teachers, and shares his thoughts and wonderings about the emotional distress he saw as a result of the boy's experience with cognitive dissonance when his familiar schema was disrupted.
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Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
One time in the Nerd group chat, Lizz Nolasco shared a really interesting article/interview about the term "emotional labor." Then Carol Garboden Murray connected it to a book that discussed "dependency labor" and the two of them had a wonderful, deep, thoughtful chat while the rest of us read in awe. So here are Lizz and Carol to share a bit of that conversation with you all!
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Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
It's time for a revolution in early care and education! Rae Pica drops by to talk about her new book, "Spark a Revolution in Early Education: Speaking Up for Ourselves and the Children."
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Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Join us as Donna King, author of Pursuing Bad Guys: Joining Children's Quest for Clarity, Courage and Community, as she talks about her "yearlong, co-constructed investigation of goodness and badness, real and pretend, safety and courage."
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
"Commodification is the rendering of people or things into items of economic exchange, reducing humans and humanity into objects, and attaching human value to economic merits." (W. Gregory Harman) Yep, even children.....
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Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Mike Huber has a new book coming out, and you're definitely going to want to read it! In this episode, Mike talks about the book, titled "Inclusion Includes Us: Building Bridges and Removing Barriers in Early Childhood Classrooms."
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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
"There is a dominant discourse that early education is preparation for something in the future, usually stated as kindergarten; that developmental psychology with its focus on ages and stages can be a framework for early education; that children need adults to fix them; that the natural caring of others, a strength of women, isn’t important.These dominant discourses lead us away from closely examining the amazing events that happen in children’s lives every day that show how brilliant and capable young children are." (Tom Drummond)
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Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
In this episode, Lizz Nolasco, Rixa Evershed and host Heather Bernt-Santy unpack this quote from Denisha Jones:
"Joy, engagement, and reflection are the keys to liberation for both children and teachers. Through the freedom to take risks knowing they are loved, the children are liberated from deficit orientations, and adult imposed limitations on what play should look like. While liberated, they exhibit a type of confidence that only develops through freedom and love."
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