CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER PROPOSALS -DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 12TH, 2022
Re-Exploring Play and Playfulness in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Narratives, Reflections & Practices
Editors: Melanie K. Felton (College of Saint Mary, Omaha, Nebraska) and Diana H. Cortez-Castro (Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas)
Goal of the Book: The purpose of this book is to create a compilation of strategies that early childhood teacher educators will be able to use to build pre-service teachers’ knowledge, skills and dispositions toward play providing a unique perspective by focusing on early childhood teacher educators’ lived experiences in designing and implementing hands-on and minds-on approaches with pre-service teachers. This project is an outgrowth of the NAECTE ResearchNET on Creativity & Play in Early Childhood Teacher Education.
Chapter authors will share research, teaching stories about classroom practices, and narratives about helping pre-service teachers develop positive views toward play and learn effective strategies to support play in early childhood classrooms.
Early Childhood Teacher Educators are invited to submit chapter proposals of up to 1000 words using the format provided. Focus topics and submission format are included in the Call for Book Chapter Proposals. Proposals must be submitted by the extended deadline of June 12, 2022. Proposals will be peer reviewed, and acceptance will be communicated by August 15, 2022. Full chapter drafts by invited authors will be due by January 15, 2023.
Proposals and all correspondence should be directed to: Dr. Melanie K. Felton at mfelton@csm.edu or Dr. Diana H. Cortez-Castro at diana.cortez-castro@tsc.edu.
NAECTE Intentions: 2021 Strategies to Advance Our Organization
This set of intentions was born out of our 2016 Needs Assessment. The NAECTE Board held 2 Global Café and two board meeting events across 2020-2021 to construct our set of intentions. We identified 4 areas of need stemming from our 2016 Needs Assessment: Membership, Communication, Research, and Advocacy. The NAECTE Board and our membership have identified and refined 2-3 major areas of work under each of these identified areas. These are noted in the following pdf: NAECTE Intentions
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Speak Out and Call to Action
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