Every Early Childhood Educator's Foundation for Ethical Practice
Newly authored and aligned with the recently revised code of ethics for the field, the fourth edition of Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the Code of Ethics continues to define standards of professional conduct for the field, guide educators' ethical decision making, and support educators in doing their work with integrity.
A time-tested framework guides readers through ethical analysis using a step-by-step approach and sixteen cases drawn from real dilemmas educators often encounter. These dilemmas include balancing the individual needs of a child with the needs of the group, addressing a family's request that the teacher do something the teacher does not believe is in the child's best interest, and working with a colleague who is not meeting their professional responsibilities. The analysis of each case illustrates how the collective wisdom and expert guidance expressed in the Code of Ethics can help educators resolve their real-life dilemmas.
New topics and features to help educators navigate difficult issues in their daily work with children, families, colleagues, and the community includeEducators will turn to this book again and again as they seek to make the right decisions for young children, families, colleagues, and themselves.
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Christyn Dundorf, PhD, is codirector of Teaching Preschool Partners, a nonprofit organization working to grow playful learning and inquiry practices in school-based pre-K programs and infuse those practices up into the early grades. She has more than 30 years of experience in the early learning field as a teacher, administrator, and adult educator. Dr. Dundorf served on the work group to revise NAEYC's position statement on ethics and collaborated on ethics professional development with the founding coauthor of Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code.