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
Jan 13, 2020
Jan 13, 2020
40 min
Lizz and Heather use a story of mud play in an early childhood setting to discuss how children's bodies are considered within different cultural perspectives.
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Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020
38 min
Louisa May Alcott? Charlotte Bronte? Jane Austen? Charles Dickens? They all have something to say about supporting young children.
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Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019
36 min
Sam Balch joins the show to ask Heather some questions about her experiences and philosophies as an ECE college instructor.
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Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019
35 min
Egocentric behavior in children is developmentally appropriate and a positive indicator of social/emotional development. Listen to hear Dan talk about why we should value the child who takes and the child who protects.
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Dec 16, 2019
Dec 16, 2019
34 min
If you don't follow Greg Santucci on Facebook, you definitely should! He joins the show here to make his case for never using the phrase "behavior management" again.
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Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019
30 min
Another episode where Mike Huber asks Heather to dive deeper into how ideas discussed on previous episodes show up in her daily practice.
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Dec 2, 2019
Dec 2, 2019
31 min
Does the language we use to describe the work we do matter?
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Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019
52 min
The second installment of our conversation with Carol about her upcoming book Illuminating Care: The Pedagogy and Practice of Care.
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Nov 18, 2019
Nov 18, 2019
30 min
Houston Kraft, author of Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk and Act in Kindness joins the show to connect his ideas about kindness to our work with young children and with each other.
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Nov 11, 2019
Nov 11, 2019
28 min
Another episode where Mike Huber asks Heather to dive deeper into how ideas discussed on previous episodes show up in her daily practice.
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