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Early Childhood Education and Care: History, Policy, and Social Work Practice
- Credit(s): 5.5 Social Work
- Course Number: NATPRESS041
- Access: Available for 5 months after Registration
External Course
- Non-Member Price
- $35.00
- Member Price
- $27.00

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING – You are registering for credits ONLY. In order to complete this course and claim the credits, you must separately purchase and read Early Childhood Education and Care: History, Policy, and Social Work Practice, by Joy P. Greenberg and Jessica M. Kahn, from NASW Press, then complete an exam. After you purchase the credits on the Social Work Online CE Institute, navigate to your My Products page and click the green Play button to purchase the publication from NASW Press. Once you have read the publication, navigate back to your My Products page and click the blue Get Certificate button to complete the exam. Please only attempt to complete the exam after you have separately purchased and read the publication.

Early childhood education and care encompass many different programs and types of care, from day care centers and home-based care to nursery schools and preschools. Most children receive at least some nonparental care before attending kindergarten; however, the quality and costs of these programs differ across various geographic and sociodemographic groups. Effective early education has been shown to help reduce poverty, and consequences for disadvantaged children who receive low-quality care are serious and long-lasting.

Early childhood education and care is an emerging and important domain for the social work profession. Social workers, with their commitment to social justice, are well positioned to address these issues and inequalities. Early Childhood Education and Care highlights the important roles that social workers can play in direct practice, public policy, research, advocacy, and social work education associated with early childhood education and care. The book explores the evolution of day nurseries and nursery schools, detailing the origins of the current fragmented early childhood education and care system. Use patterns related to income, race and ethnicity, immigration status, and parental education are identified. The authors describe model programs and the effects of various care arrangements, demonstrating how different types of settings can influence outcomes and benefit certain groups of children. International approaches are analyzed, providing more insight into potential areas for domestic reform. In the final chapter, recent early childhood education and care debates are discussed through a social work lens.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the definitions and history associated with early childhood education and care.
Understand outcomes for children associated with different types of early childhood education and care settings.
Evaluate the unique skills that social workers bring to the social work field of practice of early childhood education and care.
Compare and contrast early childhood education and care settings, systems, and approaches in the U.S. with those in other countries.
Apply direct practice skills to early childhood education and care settings.

Credits

5.5 Social Work

Faculty

Joy GreenbergBio

Joy Greenberg Bio

Joy P. Greenberg, PhD, LMSW, is a professor of social work and the MSW program director at Lehman College, City University of New York. Before receiving her doctorate in 2007 from Columbia University School of Social Work, she facilitated groups for new parents and caregivers. Her research areas of interest include early childhood education and care policy, immigrants and education, and school social work in the urban environment. She teaches social welfare policy, research methods, social work administration, and an elective titled Social Work in Urban Schools.

Jessica KahnBio

Jessica Kahn Bio

Jessica M. Kahn, PhD, LMSW, is a professor of social work and MSW program adviser at Lehman College, City University of New York, in the Bronx. She previously attended Davidson College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Columbia University. In direct practice and social work administration, Dr. Kahn primarily worked at agencies with vulnerable children and families. In that capacity, Dr. Kahn saw the need for better child and family welfare policies, including more progressive approaches to poverty reduction, parental leave, and early education and care. Professor Kahn teaches policy, research, and fieldwork courses with a focus on social and economic justice.

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