Authors Posts by Denisha Jones, PhD
Denisha Jones, PhD
When All Else Fails, We Must Protect Childhood
Thank you all for attending the Thomas H. Wright Lecture, which
serves as the keynote for the “Empowering Teachers Program” at Sarah
Lawrence College. I’m honored to be this year’s speaker.
Building an Early Childhood Education Resistence Movement: Protecting Childhood and the Profession
Education in the United States, and especially early childhood education, is a decentralized patchwork of local, state, national, and private organizations. Even though public education remains (for now) in the public realm, unlike other...
In Defense of Play: What Will it Take to Get Parents, Teachers, and Lawmakers...
The first time I taught a course on play, I used the term Play Defenders. I told my students, as future early childhood educators, they would have to become Play Defenders. It might be...