Satomi Izumi-Taylor

Satomi Izumi-Taylor is a professor of early childhood education in the department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership at the University of Memphis. She received her doctorate in family and child development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and her mater’s degree in early childhood education from San Francisco State University. She was awarded the College of Education Outstanding Award for Research in 2003, the Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching in 2004, the Dean’s Excellence Award in Mentoring in 2005, the College of Education’s Ellery Earl Crader Professor of Education Award in 2006, and the Dean’s Excellence Award in Service in 2008. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on cognitive, social, and moral development in children, pre-service teacher education, play, Japanese early childhood education, and reflection. Her current research interests include cross-cultural studies of childcare in China, Japan, the United States, and Sweden; pre-service teachers’ notion of technology in Japan; New Zealand, the US, and Taiwan; and American and Japanese pre-service teachers’ teaching science.

Publications

Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies
Technology for Early Childhood Education and Socialization: Developmental Applications and Methodologies
Sally Blake, Satomi Izumi-Taylor. © 2010. 294 pages.
With the ever-present growth in technology, opportunities to explore and experience technology at an early age are increasingly important in order to develop problem-solving and...
Tech-Knowledge in Japanese Early Childhood Education
Tech-Knowledge in Japanese Early Childhood Education
Tetsuya Ogawa, Satomi Izumi-Taylor. © 2010. 21 pages.
This chapter describes how Japanese early childhood education promotes children’s socialization through the use of technology and play in group-oriented environments. The chapter...
Promoting Family Involvement through Using Technology
Promoting Family Involvement through Using Technology
Vivian Gunn Morris, Satomi Izumi-Taylor, Cheri Lewis Smith, Denise L. Winsor. © 2010. 13 pages.
In this chapter the authors have provided an overview of some of the ideas about families and technology use in early childhood programs. The four authors are university faculty...
Technology Resources and Software Recommended for Young Children and Teachers and Evaluating Web Sites
Technology Resources and Software Recommended for Young Children and Teachers and Evaluating Web Sites
Lee Allen, Sally Blake, Candice Burkett, Rene Crow, Andrew Neil Gibbons, Michael M. Grant, Satomi Izumi-Taylor, Yu-Yuan Lee, Jorge Lopez, María Eugenia López, Zelda McMurtry, Clif Mims, Vivian Gunn Morris, Cheri Lewis Smith, Denise Winsor. © 2010. 16 pages.
Technology is being designed for children of all ages, even as young as nine months (Morrison, 2007). The software market is growing rapidly for children from infant to preschool...
Tech-Knowledge: How Children and Early Childhood Education Teachers Develop Knowledge Through Technology
Tech-Knowledge: How Children and Early Childhood Education Teachers Develop Knowledge Through Technology
Satomi Izumi-Taylor, Ann F. Lovelace. © 2007. 21 pages.
This chapter describes how early childhood teachers can support the development of young children’s love for learning through technology, and how one early childhood education...