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Ready or not : early care and education's leadership choices 12 years later
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Ready or Not made its mark in 2007 by boldly calling for a field-wide response to the question: "What defines and bounds early care and education as a field of practice?" A dozen years later, this ...
Ready or Not made its mark in 2007 by boldly calling for a field-wide response to the question: "What defines and bounds early care and education as a field of practice?" A dozen years later, this question remains pivotal to the field's understanding of its present and its aspirations for the future. In this updated and expanded edition, Goffin and Washington reunite to examine the major issues that must still be addressed if children are to be given more and better opportunities. This second edition will help everyone whose work impacts the ECE workforce, including those working directly with children, to deepen their commitment to adaptive and systems work and to develop the leadership capacity needed to become change agents. Ready or not, early childhood education needs to tackle its adaptive challenges. Nothing less will enable it to shift the field's developmental trajectory, fulfill its potential, and satisfy its obligations to children, families, and society. -- Provided by publisher.
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- Stacie G. Goffin, Valora Washington ; foreword by Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz
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- English
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- Second edition
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2019]
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- xiv, 146 pages ; 23 cm
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- 9780807761557, 0807761559, 9780807761861, 0807761869, 9780807777961, 9780807777961
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- on1084629210
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword by Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz - Acknowledgments -- Prequel: How Far Have We Come 12 Years Later?: Defining Our Terms -- Why We Came Together to Update Ready or Not -- ECE's Adaptive Challenges Also Have Evolved -- Bringing the ECE Field's Denizens to the Forefront -- Distinguishing Between the Field's Adaptive and Technical Issues -- Embracing A Developmental Journey -- How the Book Is Organized -- Early Care and Education's Leadership Choices -- Calling the Question: Building an Early Care and Education System -- Our Point of View -- The Leadership Work of the Early Care and Education Field -- Previous Adaptive Work in Early Care and Education -- Forming Our Future -- New Realities -- A Unique Historical Moment -- Facing New Realities -- Concern for the Field's Future -- Chapter 2 New Realities-Postscript -- Twelve Years Later, What Has Changed? -- Twelve Years Later: What Hasn't Changed? -- Twelve Years Later: Why Hasn't Change Occurred? -- Twelve Years Later, Why Does It Matter? -- Appendix A: Early Care and Education's Changing Landscape: From the 1980s to 2019 and Forward -- Necessary Choices: Purpose - Identity - Responsibility -- Calling the Question -- Leading by Changing: Adaptive Work -- Preparing for Adaptive Work -- Mobilizing the Early Care and Education Field for Adaptive Change -- Leading by changind - postscript -- Sequel: What's Next? A Call to the Future -- Engaging With Adaptive and Systemic Change -- ECE's Choices Will Define Its Future -- Appendix B: Characterizations of the Early Care and Education Field by Its Leaders -- Appendix C: Making Choices