The Yew Chung Approach to Early Childhood Education Centering Emergent Curriculum, Child-Led Inquiry, and Multilingualism

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Synopsis

This volume details the Yew Chung Approach and the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach as a unique contribution to the field of early childhood education.

The Yew Chung Education Foundation (YCEF) in Hong Kong is a nonprofit organization and a high-quality early childhood program that promotes a global lens and multilingualism through an emergent curriculum. This book explores the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach, including relationships, the emergent curriculum, inquiry-based pedagogy, and the multilingual and multicultural approach. Grounding these values in daily classroom practice and the broader sociocultural context of Hong Kong, it shows how the Yew Chung Approach effectively supports additional language learning through a progressive emergent curriculum with a high degree of child agency. It also explores the unique history of Hong Kong as an incubator and setting for the Yew Chung Approach and considers the relationships between the colonial history of the city, Hong Kong’s current status as a global city, and the mission of Yew Chung to provide children with a global lens.

An important study which exemplifies and investigates a unique program and perspective within the field, this book will benefit scholarly and practitioner audiences within the global early childhood community, as well as appealing to academics, researchers and postgraduates working within early childhood education, comparative education, and bilingual education.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Author:
Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith, Sylvia Ya-Hsuan Yang, Kutasha Bryan-Silva
ISBN:
9781000750157
Related ISBNs:
9781032299594, 9781003302926, 9781032299587
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
164
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-03-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2023
Copyright by:
Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith with Sylvia Ya-Hsuan Yang and Kutasha Bryan-Silva 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction