6 results on '"Mark Nagasawa"'
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2. An 'old fight': A case study of enduring struggle in early childhood education
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Mark Nagasawa
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Early childhood education ,Child care ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Educational quality ,Gender studies ,Education ,Policy studies ,Politics ,State (polity) ,Political science ,Cultural studies ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Observational study ,media_common - Abstract
This is a case study of political struggles over early care and education in the USA using a combination of archival, interview, and observational data from a study conducted in the US state of Arizona. This case analysis illustrates how a combination of the episodic nature of public attention paid to early care and education in the USA, internal tensions within US early care and education between its educational and caring purposes, and competition over scarce resources has worked to undermine the development of universal early care and education in the USA. The study is framed by Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave’s ideas of enduring struggles and locally contested practice, and uses an analytic strategy informed by Bakhtinian theory to illustrate how understanding the cultural logics involved in locally contested practice can be of use to the practice of policy advocacy, specifically engaging adversaries with what Bakhtin called an “excess of seeing” - understanding beneath the surface. While focused on one state in one national context, this analysis may have transnational relevance by raising comparative questions about early care and education policies and policy practice in other localities.
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- 2019
3. Social and Emotional Learning and Early Childhood Education: Redundant terms?
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Amanda J. Moreno, Mark Nagasawa, and Toby Schwartz
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Academic education ,Early childhood education ,Reggio Emilia approach ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,05 social sciences ,Social change ,050301 education ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Self-actualization ,Social emotional learning ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Emotional development ,Psychology ,0503 education ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Social and emotional learning is a young field, but a very old concept. The idea that children require explicit instruction in social-emotional capacities is present in the writings of philosophers as far back as Plato, and partly constitutes the roots of the “whole-child development” and “developmentally appropriate practice” frameworks in early childhood education today. Nevertheless, early childhood education has recently been embracing and embraced by the modern global social and emotional learning movement in compulsory school education. Why would early childhood education do this, given its long tradition of prioritizing social-emotional pursuits and, in fact, serving as a model for the rest of the education continuum? Using Minow’s “dilemma of difference” framework, this article critically examines the question of which set of consequences the early childhood education field should choose in the current era—those of potentially superficially modularizing social-emotional concerns and comingling them with undesirable compulsory school education accountability structures, or those of continuing an embedded approach within a potentially generic whole-child philosophy that is difficult to implement in the real world. After considering early childhood education’s challenges with living by its own philosophy, the authors recommend a cautious but proactive acceptance of new social and emotional learning models within early childhood education because this allows a public interrogation of whichever values and methods for imparting them are chosen. The authors argue that an active alignment around social and emotional learning may buffer the early childhood education principles of democracy and child agency against the marginalization from political cross-currents they have historically experienced.
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- 2018
4. Be/longing: Reciprocal mentoring, pedagogies of place, and critical childhood studies in the time of Trump
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Mark Nagasawa and Beth Blue Swadener
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Early childhood education ,Sociology and Political Science ,Higher education ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,Place-based education ,050301 education ,Development ,Childhood studies ,050701 cultural studies ,Racism ,Feminism ,Education ,Critical theory ,Pedagogy ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Early childhood ,Psychology ,business ,0503 education ,Demography ,media_common - Abstract
This essay focuses on the important, but often taken-for-granted, roles that mentoring and collaborative inquiry play in rethinking childhood studies and situates our work in a time of resurgent racism and xenophobia in the United States—as well as invigorated movements to affirm human rights and social justice. It represents a co-mentoring dialogue, spanning over a decade, about the complexities of embodying critical, activist scholarship within dominant (White, Western, heteronormative, and Global North) assumptions about childhood, families, and communities. Our co-interrogation of these deeply encoded assumptions has been driven by a shared question of how to span the seemingly disparate discourse communities of critically engaged scholars and mainstream early childhood professionals in a variety of community contexts. These efforts have been guided by learning from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies and Black and Chicana/Latina/Mestiza feminisms. To illustrate what continues to be a reciprocal mentoring relationship, we use critical personal narrative to discuss key influences, literature, pedagogies of place, and exigencies of sustaining critical childhood studies movements in the current moment.
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- 2017
5. Arizona’s 'Success by Six' Legislative Package: A Historic Case of Strategic Framing
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Mark Nagasawa
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Strategic planning ,Early childhood education ,Framing (social sciences) ,Frame analysis ,Political economy ,Law ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Legislature ,Participant observation ,Sociology ,Policy analysis ,Collective memory ,Education - Abstract
This account of what, at first glance, might seem like a narrow and obscure historical case of one U.S. state’s preschool program is a vehicle for raising questions about how early childhood policies have developed in other locales, for the contemporary policies and programs that exist around the world are the result of efforts by many unrecognized actors. In addition to opening up new lines of inquiry, consideration of historical cases such as this one complicates and enriches the field’s collective memory. Furthermore, a more diverse and theorized use of history in early childhood education (ECE) can have practical uses. Toward this end, ideas from strategic frame analysis are used to explain how passage of Arizona’s Success by Six agenda was possible in what is commonly thought of as a politically conservative state. This analysis shows that rather than a simple matter of supporters and opponents, Success by Six ultimately became possible not because of the expected allies, but rather because of the un...
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- 2015
6. Impacts of the Arizona System Ready/Child Ready Professional Development Project on Preschool Teachers' Self-Efficacy
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Beth Blue Swadener, Pradnya Patet, Aysegul Ciyer, and Mark Nagasawa
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Self-efficacy ,Program evaluation ,Early childhood education ,Medical education ,Higher education ,business.industry ,education ,Professional development ,Qualitative property ,Focus group ,Education ,Pedagogy ,Early childhood ,business ,Psychology ,health care economics and organizations ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Funded through a No Child Left Behind of 2001 (NCLB) grant, this research examines the effects of the Arizona System Ready/Child Ready Early Childhood Professional Development Project (AzSRCR) on the self-efficacy of 256 educators who participated in AzSRCR over a 3-year period. The AzSRCR program was a federally funded, statewide higher education partnership that provided assistance for early childhood practitioners earning associate degrees in early childhood education. The program aimed to improve the professional knowledge and skills of preschool practitioners and ultimately enhance the preschool readiness of children living in low-income communities and underserved areas of the state. The data in this study were collected from AzSRCR program evaluations. Free-write and focus group data were analyzed to develop major themes common across the data set. The Lamorey-Wilcox self-efficacy scale (2003) was also administered, the results of which were triangulated with the qualitative data from the program e...
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- 2010
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