{"product_id":"learning-stories-in-practice-9781526423757","title":"Learning Stories in Practice","description":"Featuring a variety of examples of real-life learning stories from around the world, \u003cstrong\u003eLearning Stories in Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e by Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee provides clear, practical advice on how to initiate and create learning stories and why they are valuable. The authors show readers how to write stories that capture the excitement of each young child's journey through the early years and how to develop a deep professional understanding of the learning that takes place during this time in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarr, Margaret:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMargaret Carr\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Education at the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Before she joined the Faculty of Education at Waikato, she was a geographer at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where there was a strong focus by the professors on social and cultural change. This formed a background for her interest in the role of education in society, and in Hamilton she gained a qualification in early childhood education and worked as a kindergarten teacher before becoming a lecturer in education at the university. Her PhD thesis was entitled 'Technological Practice in Early Childhood as a Dispositional Milieu'. New Zealand has provided a number of opportunities for professors to research \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e early childhood teachers on topics chosen by the teachers, and Margaret has frequently published with teachers. Learning Stories as an assessment practice was developed for the 1996 \u003ci\u003eTe Whariki\u003c\/i\u003e bicultural curriculum (later revised in 2017); the development of narrative assessment is told in the 2001 Sage book, \u003ci\u003eAssessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories, \u003c\/i\u003eand further developed in the 2012 Sage book \u003ci\u003eLearning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education. \u003c\/i\u003eThe latter book was co-authored with Wendy Lee, and this partnership has combined academic and professional wisdom in many publications and presentations over many years.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee, Wendy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eWendy Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is passionate about Early Childhood Education (ECE) in New Zealand and has developed a deep interest in issues related to the curriculum and leadership. She is a strong advocate for Learning Stories and the power of documentation to strengthen learner identity of children. Over the past 50 years, her career has focused on building strong, reflective and robust learning communities through her roles as teacher, unionist, lecturer, community development worker, city councillor, manager, professional development facilitator and researcher. Today, as director of the Educational Leadership Project Ltd she and her team provide training and advice to ECE centres throughout New Zealand and in a wide range of other countries. Over the past 20 years, she has had the privilege of collaborating with Professor Margaret Carr on a number of ECE research projects, including co-directing the National Early Childhood Assessment and Learning Exemplar Project. This produced the \u003ci\u003eKei Tua o te Pae\u003c\/i\u003e books on assessment for improving learning in the NZ ECE sector. As the influence of research in the area of Learning Stories and Assessment in New Zealand grows and extends more into ECE practice, Wendy has been increasingly requested to present its influence to a wider international audience including teachers in Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, Japan, Belgium, the USA, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia and China. ","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873505349906,"sku":"9781526423757","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5df82670-17a1-49d1-86a1-55d9fed09de1.jpg?v=1737937821","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/learning-stories-in-practice-9781526423757","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}