Active learning for the whole child has been increasingly ignored by early childhood education decisionmakers. Without an understanding of child development guiding ECE policies, children have lost their love of learning and play, and face growing health issues.
Rae Pica’s Spark a Revolution in Early Education provides a conversational approach to advocating for active, playbased learning for the development and education of the whole child. Including chapters on debunking myths in early childhood education, advocacy basics, and strategies for speaking up, this book provides early childhood educators research and actionable steps for approaching decisionmakers to generate necessary change in early education policymaking.
144 pages
Early childhood professionals are fed up with early childhood education policies being made without child development in mind. They are eager for change, but need some guidance in creating this change. With an overwhelming response to author Rae Pica’s recent writing and appearances encouraging advocacy and action for active learning for the whole child, ECE professionals everywhere are ready to sign up for “Rae’s Revolution!” Rae’s signature conversational approach will dispel any fears readers harbor about speaking up and any doubts about the need to advocate bravely and widely during this critical inflection point in the profession.
The book offers the research and theoretical underpinnings that prove the need for changing course, as well as practical and actionable steps for speaking to decision makers and convincing them to pursue change.