Most Expensive Preschools

Forbes recently listed preschools with prices greater than some four year institutions.

Check out the article here and see pictures and links to their websites here.

Just to let you know: you don't need this. All of those thousands of dollars can be saved as long as you find a center with a positive, responsive, nurturing, formally trained early childhood teacher. You'll do just as well. Believe it:)

Who's Who In Early Childhood Education: Erik Erikson

Who: Erik Homburger Erikson

Education:

Never Attained A Formal Degree

Graduate, Montessori Teachers Association

Diploma, Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, 1933

What Is He Known For?

The development of his psychosocial theory of emotional development. He theorized that children must negotiate two extremes at different junctures in their lives. For example, the infant must negotiate the ability to trust. If he does not do this, then he will inevitably develop distrust. Erikson's ideas are the foundation for why early childhood environments should be constructed for maximum opportunities to explore for the child (especially infants). This is how they have opportunities to "trust" their environment and the people in it.

What Is He Doing Now?
Erikson died in 1994 at the ripe old age of 92 and was renowed throughout the early childhood world for his contributions.

Early Childhood Quote of the Week: September 18, 2007

"Only when we accept those who are younger as equal human beings with agency and power, will we begin to address our colonizing practices over them."
--Radhika Viruru and Gaile Cannella
(from Embracing Identities in Early Childhood Education: Diversity and Possibilities)

Who's Who In Early Childhood Education: Beth Blue Swadener

Who: Beth Swadener

Education:

B.A., Psychology, Indiana University-South Bend

M.S., Child Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison

What Is She Known For?

Her post-structuralist reserach in with African children. She seeks to conduct and draw research that emphaize the authentic words and voice of children, rather than the professional voice of the researcher. She focuses on this in the book she well-known for co-editing: Power & Voice in Research With Children.

What Is She Doing Now?

She is a Professor of Early Childhood Education at Arizona State University.