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
Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018
24 min
Lisa Murphy joins Heather to talk about the importance of block play, the stages of block play, and why the whole room should be block play.
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018
27 min
Host Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz (Cohen) Nolasco talk about the book We Don't Play with Guns Here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years by Penny Holland.
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Jan 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018
25 min
Host Heather Bernt-Santy and Lizz (Cohen) Nolasco talk about the book We Don't Play with Guns Here: War, Weapon and Superhero Play in the Early Years by Penny Holland.
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Jan 22, 2018
Jan 22, 2018
31 min
Lisa Murphy joins the podcast to talk about how creating environments and building relationships is just good teaching.
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Jan 15, 2018
Jan 15, 2018
30 min
Josie Schneider and Bethany Corrie join host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss what Dorothy Singer has called the "miracle of human experience: the imagination"
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Jan 8, 2018
Jan 8, 2018
26 min
Josie Schneider and Bethany Corrie join host Heather Bernt-Santy to discuss what Dorothy Singer has called the "miracle of human experience: the imagination"
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018
41 min
Tiffany Pearsall and Alisha Schmitke join the podcast to discuss what we miss when we hurry through our days with children.
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Dec 25, 2017
Dec 25, 2017
25 min
Tiffany and Heather sort of argue but mostly push each other to think more deeply about what's wrong with child care after reading a list of what Deb Curtis and Margie Carter identified as issues in their book Learning Together with Young Children.
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Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
31 min
Tiffany and Heather sort of argue but mostly push each other to think more deeply about what's wrong with child care after reading a list of what Deb Curtis and Margie Carter identified as issues in their book Learning Together with Young Children.
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Dec 11, 2017
Dec 11, 2017
20 min
In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.
It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. The United States has yet to ratify.
In this two part conversation, host Heather Bernt-Santy is joined by Tiffany Pearsall.
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