ECE Recent Scholarship
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Brown, C. P., & Lan, Y. C. (Accepted for publication). How teachers’ developmentally appropriate practices influence children’s cognitive development: A qualitative metasynthesis. Teachers College Record.
Early Childhood Policy
Adair, J.K. (2011). Advocating for Ethnographic Work in Early Childhood Federal Policy: Problems and Possibilities. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 42(4), 422-433.
Adair, J.K. (2011). Policy Brief: Ethnographic Knowledge For Early Childhood. Policy Brief prepared for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Early Learning.
Early Childhood Reform
Brown, C. P. (Accepted for publication). Reforming preschool to ready children for academic achievement: A case study of the impact of pre-k reform on the issue of school readiness. Early Education and Development.
Brown, C. P. (2011). Searching for the norm in a system of absolutes: A case study of standards-based accountability reform in pre-kindergarten. Early Education and Development, 22, (1), 151-177.
Ethnography
Adair, J.K. & Pastori, G. (2011). Developing qualitative coding frameworks for educational research: Immigration, education and the Children Crossing Borders project. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 34 (1), 31-47.
Global Comparative Education
Adair, J.K. & Bhaskaran, L. (2010). Meditation, Rangoli and Eating on the Floor: Practices from an Urban Preschool in Bangalore, India. Young Children, 65(6), 48-55.
Immigration and Education
Adair, J.K. (2012). Discrimination as a Contextualized Obstacle to the Preschool Teaching of Young Latino Children of Immigrants. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 13(3), 163-174.
Adair Receives FCD Grant to Study Children’s Agency in Early Grades
Multilingual Children
Arzubiaga, A. & Adair, J. (2009). Misrepresentations of language and culture, language and culture as proxies for marginalization: Debunking the arguments. In E. Murillo (Ed.) Handbook of Latinos and Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Parents and Families
Adair, J. K. & Tobin, J. (2007). Listening to the voices of parents. In C. Genishi & A. Goodwin (Eds.), Diversities in early childhood education: Rethinking and doing. New York: Routledge Falmer.
Socio-cultural Knowledge
Adair, J.K., Tobin, J. & Arzubiaga, A. (in press). The Dilemma of Cultural Responsiveness and Professionalization: Listening Closer to Immigrant Teachers Who Teach Children of Recent Immigrants. Teachers College Record.
Teacher Education
Adair, J.K. (2011). Confirming Chanclas: What Early Childhood Teacher Educators Can Learn From Immigrant Preschool Teachers. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 32(1), 55-71.
Teaching Diverse Children in a High-stakes Context
Brown, C. P., & Gasko, J. W. (2012). Why should pre-k be more like elementary school? A case study of pre-k reform. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 26, 264-290.
Brown, C. P., & Lee, J. E. (In press). How to teach to the child when the stakes are high: Examples of implementing developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices in pre-kindergarten. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education.