The Yew Chung Approach to Early Childhood Education: Centering Emergent Curriculum, Child-Led Inquiry, and Multilingualism [Hardcover]

This volume details the Yew Chung Approach and the twelve values that exemplify the approach as a unique contribution to the field of early childhood education.

Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Yew Chung  Bernard Spodek Scholar in Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Sylvia Ya-Hsuan Yang is a Yew Chung Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Kutasha Bryan-Silva is a Yew Chung Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

This volume details the Yew Chung Approach and the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach as a unique contribution to the field of early childhood education.

The Yew Chung Education Foundation (YCEF) in Hong Kong is a nonprofit organization and a high-quality early childhood program that promotes a global lens and multilingualism through an emergent curriculum. This book explores the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach, including relationships, the emergent curriculum, inquiry-based pedagogy, and the multilingual and multicultural approach. Grounding these values in daily classroom practice and the broader sociocultural context of Hong Kong, it shows how the Yew Chung Approach effectively supports additional language learning through a progressive emergent curriculum with a high degree of child agency. It also explores the unique history of Hong Kong as an incubator and setting for the Yew Chung Approach and considers the relationships between the colonial history of the city, Hong Kongs current status as a global city, and the milÓQ