Relationship-Based Care for Infants and Toddlers

Fostering Early Learning and Development Through Responsive Practice

Susan L. Recchia, Minsun Shin, Eleni Loizou (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6891-4 (ISBN)

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Learn how to create and nurture communities of care for diverse children, families, and practitioners through responsive practice. In this text, the social and emotional worlds of babies and toddlers, their peers, and their caregivers come to life in the everyday moments of infant-toddler care and education. The authors show infants and toddlers as active, agentic, and intentional social partners from the start of life, highlighting their unique capacities for social engagement with both adults and peers. Interwoven within each chapter’s narrative are insights culled from extensive observations, teacher interviews, and video analyses. Part I emphasizes play, peer friendships, and humor as essential elements of infant learning, illustrated throughout with anecdotes of praxis in early care and education settings. Building on these aspects of babies’ ways of being in group care, Part II examines the complex roles of infant-toddler professionals and the critical importance of supportive and caring environments. Readers will explore the elements needed for in-depth and specialized professional preparation, including overarching principles of relationship-based practice.

Book Features:

Illuminates particular and understudied ways that infants and toddlers actively contribute to their own social learning and development.
Shares how teachers learn to engage with and nurture infants’ and toddlers’ social capacities and experiences within child care settings.
Uses anecdotes and vignettes from the authors’ research and practice with infants, toddlers, and caregivers to bring their experiences to life.
Discusses themes that are important and unique for infancy and toddlerhood, such as play, friendships, humor, and professional love.
Presents a unique set of chapters that reveal infants’ and toddlers’ perspectives, while also considering the caregiver’s actions within a responsive care framework.

Susan L. Recchia is a professor emeritus in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Minsun Shin is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University. Eleni Loizou is a professor in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Education Program at the University of Cyprus.

Contents

Foreword Mary Benson McMullen ix

1. The Social and Emotional World of Infant–Toddler Childcare 1

Introduction 1

The Power of Relationships as a Context for Social and Emotional Learning 5

Overarching Principles That Guide Relationship-Based Practice 6

Overview With Brief Chapter Descriptions 7

Chapter Summary 9

Part I: Distinctive Infant–Toddler Social Encounters in Childcare

2. Infant–Toddler Play as an Essential Component of Early Learning and Development 13

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Ways of Learning 13

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Play Experiences 15

Infant–Toddler Play Practices and the Caregiver Role 22

Discussion Questions 29

3. Friendships Among Infant–Toddler Peers 30

Infant–Toddler Friendships 31

Friendship Experiences and Sociocultural Context 36

Infant–Toddler Caregiving to Support Friendships and Social Experiences 39

Discussion Questions 42

4. Creative Social Exchanges: Infant–Toddler Humor 43

Humor Definition and Theories 43

Peer Social Encounters as a Catalyst for Humor Development 50

Classroom Learning Environments and Caregiver Roles Support Humor 52

Discussion Questions 57

Part II: Creating Interpersonal Environments That Support Responsive Care

5. The Complex Role of Infant–Toddler Professionals: Care, Love, Diversity, and Identities 61

Bringing Care, Education, and Love Together 62

Contemplating Emotional Labor 66

Appreciating Diverse Lived Experiences 69

Discussion Questions 73

6. Becoming an Infant–Toddler Teacher: Ways of Thinking and Ways of Being 74

Relationship-Based Care and the Primary Care System 75

Being With and Learning From Infants and Toddlers 77

Becoming an Infant–Toddler Practitioner Within a Supportive Learning Community 82

Discussion Questions 90

7. Constellations of Care: Building Caring Infant–Toddler Communities 91

Constellations of Caring/Ethic of Care 92

Valuing Inclusive Practice/Honoring Differences 96

Respecting and Supporting New and Continuing Transitions 98

Capitalizing on Opportunities to Build Community Among Staff, Children, and Families 100

Making Administrative and Policy Decisions That Reflect Relationship-Based Practice 102

Discussion Questions 104

8. Enduring Reflections for the Field of Infant–Toddler Care and Education 105

Infants and Toddlers as Being and Becoming 105

Infants’ and Toddlers’ Rights to Responsive and Loving Care 107

Infant–Toddler Care as a “Home” for Fostering Community and Subjective Well-Being 109

Concluding Thoughts 110

References 111

Index 127

About the Authors 133

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Early Childhood Education Series
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Nancy File
Vorwort	Mary Benson McMullen
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 235 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6891-X / 080776891X
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6891-4 / 9780807768914
Zustand	Neuware