{"title":"“Breathe and Be Ready to Learn”: The Issue with Social-Emotional Learning Programs as Classroom Management","authors":"Molly E. McManus","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1006","url":null,"abstract":"As social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a more acknowledged and central part of early schooling in the last two decades, many schools and educators, particularly those in progressive spaces, have adopted SEL programs to supplement or substitute other systems of classroom management. While research demon-strates that children’s social, emotional, and cultural practices and experiences are central to inclusive, humanizing, and culturally relevant learning, SEL programs are often implemented to more closely resemble behaviorist systems of classroom management. This article presents findings from a progressive first-grade classroom of Latinx children from immigrant families led by a white teacher. Examples from ethnographic observations of the classroom illustrate the ways that the teacher used an SEL program alongside a discourse of “readiness to learn” to manage and control children’s behavior. These classroom experiences proved to be closely connected to the ideas about learning that children in Mr. Walsh’s class shared in video-cued interviews, namely that students need to be calm, quiet, focused, and “ready” in order to learn. The article considers the ways that larger systems of whiteness, individualism, and control weaving through SEL programming and progressive schooling create, foster, and perpetuate discourses of control and “readiness” that ultimately prevent children from meaningfully contributing and engaging in the type of deep learning that results from focused, structured agency and relationships of mutual trust and respect.","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130164789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why We Are Done Talking about Classroom Management","authors":"Kristin Cipollone, Emily Brown Hoffman","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127152977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT) on Children who are Exhibiting Disruptive Behaviors within the Classroom Setting","authors":"Jaclynn Stankus, Karl L. Jancart, Kara E. McGoey","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1014","url":null,"abstract":"The current study examined the impact of Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT) on child behavior, teacher-student relationships, and teacher satisfaction within a general preschool setting utilizing a three-tiered approach. Participants included three preschool children without clinical diagnoses. A single subject nonconcurrent multiple baseline design was utilized across participants. Results suggest that TCIT is effective in reducing disruptive behaviors within the classroom and successful in improving the teacher-student relationship. TCIT is also considered socially valid based on teacher responses, which indicate that the intervention is acceptable and feasible within the general preschool classroom setting.","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116768346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for Increasing Early Childhood Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Culturally Responsive Practices","authors":"M. Stormont, Nargiza Buranova, Marina Antonova","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126657689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educando a Nuestros Hijos: Examining Latinx Parental Stress Factors and Parental Engagement in Head Start Preschools","authors":"Agustina Bertone, Erin Dowdy, Madeline Spiess","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1016","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to understand Latinx parental stress factors as they relate to three types of parental engagement (PE; foundational education, school participation, and supplemental education) in preschool. Stress was examined in the form of global stress and acculturative stress (English competence pressure and pressure to acculturate). Spanish- and English-speaking Latinx parents ( N = 189) of children enrolled in Head Start completed self-report surveys. Hierarchical linear regression results demonstrated that global stress significantly predicted foundational education and supplemental education, but not school participation behaviors. English competence pressure did not significantly predict any type of PE and pressure to acculturate only significantly predicted supplemental education behaviors. Findings have implications for developing family-school partnerships with Latinx parents of preschool children.","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122507494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing Together: A Call for Multiple Stakeholders to Reduce Exclusionary and Harsh Discipline for Young BICOC with Disabilities","authors":"Saili S. Kulkarni, Sunyoung Kim, Tunette Powell","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131897615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting Mental Health and Positive Well-Being in Early Childhood: Delineating the Critical Role of the School","authors":"Timothy A. Hanchon, Kristin Scardamalia","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1010","url":null,"abstract":"The health and well-being of children and youth in the United States continue to be of significant and pressing concern among professionals within the public health and educational sectors. Some findings indicate notable population-level declines over the past several decades on a number of important childhood indexes including health, well-being","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"581 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133322164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Reaves, Samantha N. Hartley, Brandy Clarke, Sharon Hoover, N. Lever
{"title":"The Need for Performance Standards in Preschools: Stealing Shamelessly from Comprehensive School Mental Health Literature","authors":"Samantha Reaves, Samantha N. Hartley, Brandy Clarke, Sharon Hoover, N. Lever","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1018","url":null,"abstract":"Young children are at-risk for developing significant mental health difficulties just as their older, school-aged peers. Preschool settings have increasingly attempted to proactively address early childhood socioemotional needs by expanding their prevention and intervention activities. A number of emerging best practices in promoting early childhood mental health have been proposed. However, there are no comprehensive performance standards for preschool mental health and limited guidance on how preschools can align themselves with best practices. This expansion in service scope parallels the development of Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems in K-12 schools. Resources and tools developed for K-12 educational settings may serve as a useful example for preschool mental health systems interested in quality comprehensive mental health care. This conceptual article will describe the prevalence of mental health difficulties in young children, review the current guidance on supporting mental health in young children, and provide support for adapting widely used K-12 school mental health performance standards to establish comprehensive standards for organizing and implementing high quality care systems in preschool settings.","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123728574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristin Cipollone, Emily Brown Hoffman, Maria B. Sciuchetti
{"title":"Compliance and Control: The Hidden Curriculum of Social-Emotional Learning","authors":"Kristin Cipollone, Emily Brown Hoffman, Maria B. Sciuchetti","doi":"10.58948/2834-8257.1005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58948/2834-8257.1005","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we seek to critically address the enactment and impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and implementation in early childhood and elementary (PK-5th) classrooms. Specifically, we argue that SEL, as frequently operationalized, is a dehumanizing process that seeks to assimilate non-dominant children into dominant ways of being while concurrently seeking to enforce compliance and normalize children to oppressive structures. SEL is often seen as a “nice” form of classroom management, perfect for a field dominated by “nice” white women who see their work as apolitical and neutral rather than political and rooted in the maintenance of white supremacy (Galman et al., 2010). As such, it makes sense that PK-5 contexts, deeply rooted in a “Just be Kind” sense of morality as opposed to one rooted in justice and student empowerment (Turner, 2019), turn to SEL programs as “fixers” of student behavior. But SEL programs are often anything but “nice.” Despite presenting as humanizing and kind, the focus on compliance makes it inherently dehumanizing.","PeriodicalId":355462,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126741498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}