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Thoughts about Head Start/High Scope Programs (Professional Experience…
Thoughts about Head Start/High Scope Programs
Professional Experience
Family & Children's Services
Learned that not every child has the opportunity to grow up in a harm-free home.
Can a positive/quality early learning experience counter the negative effects of living in harmful/dangerous/stressful environment?
YES. See results from Perry Preschool Project.
Do positive/quality early learning experiences benefit all children or just children from marginalized backgrounds?
Community Living - Enhanced staff in High Scope Preschool classroom
Began to learn about High Scope's approach to early learning.
Perry Preschool Project - every dollar invested in High Scope's curriculum approach yielded a $12 return (fewer people in jail, people earning more money, more people graduating from highschool) (HSERF, 2018).
Although it is marketed as an investment the people benefiting the most are the children enrolled in the High Scope programs (HSERF, 2018).
Research shows the long-term positive benefits of underprivileged children participating in High Scope/Head Start high quality early childhood education programs (HSERF, 2018).
High Scope/Head start programs are advertised through an investment and cost-savings lens - often because this gets the program more government funding. This opens the door for criticism regarding government interests.
High Scope/Head Start programs benefit both the child and society (Moss, 2014).
Participation in this course
Read about neoliberalism through Moss (2014).
The government has an interest in quality and high returns - everything is reduced down to an economic calcualation.
Vocabulary - the importance of vocabulary and the hidden connotations certain words can have.
Head Start programs are a way of the government "future proofing" (p.141) society.
Is this a bad thing? Don't we want the next generation to be competent and capable members of society?
Read about the deficit perspective in Nieto, Bode, Kang, & Raible (2007).
Students backgrounds (race, culture, social class, language) are viewed as problems to be fixed.
Is this the backbone of Head Start/High Scope early learning programs?