Journeys through Childhood Studies

Journeys through Childhood Studies
Author: Ingrid Richter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-07-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351137328

Investigating the experiences of a group of female students as they journey into and through higher education, and into work with and for children, Journeys through Childhood Studies offers a critical analysis of the intersectional influences and effects of social division on experiences of higher education and career trajectories. The book explores the influences of gender, race, and class on the experiences of higher education and the development of professional identities, and whether the professionalisation of work in relation to children and childhood opens up opportunities for career development or narrows the range of choices available to women. Adopting a distinctive qualitative approach to track strategies used by women participants to accommodate the changing terrain of their journeys, this book demonstrates how the women’s pathways to university are shaped by factors such as social divisions, friends, family, and school, and their experiences of working with children. Featuring detailed interviews, Journeys through Childhood Studies offers an insightful exploration of the construction and practices of the Children’s Workforce. It is a must-read for academics, postgraduate students, and those researching Childhood Studies, professional identities, and experiences of higher education.

Journeys Through Childhood Studies

Journeys Through Childhood Studies
Author: Ingrid Richter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9781032091129

This book investigates the experiences of students as they journey into and through higher education, before progressing into careers working with children.

Journeys

Journeys
Author: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442609427

Inspired by the idea of documentation as a valuable tool for making learning visible, pedagogical narration offers an opportunity to move beyond checklists and quick answers to a more complex understanding of how children learn, and how teachers might facilitate and support that learning in innovative ways. The authors use stories they collected during a collaborative study to offer a range of possibilities for alternative childhood pedagogies. Cutting edge, yet practical; detailed in its analysis, yet inspiring, this book is a boon to the field of early childhood and primary education studies.

Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies

Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies
Author: Smith, Carmel
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-11-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1447308069

This text presents the contrasting perspectives of some of the leading figures involved in shaping the field of childhood studies over the last 30 years. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 high profile pioneers in the subject, Carmel Smith and Sheila Greene share a wealth of experiences in this innovative field.

A Practical Guide to Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies

A Practical Guide to Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies
Author: Aaron Bradbury
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 152962049X

What do the Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPCs) mean in practice? What do they look like in settings? This book brings you case studies as examples of good practice demonstrating all of the GPCs. Each chapter covers a specific competency and includes: A visualisation of the competency Case studies to explore what each competency looks like in practice Expert commentary on each case study helping you to link theory to practice

Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach

Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach
Author: Tina Bruce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317330293

In the World Library of Educationalists international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their most significant pieces – excerpts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single, manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach draws together Professor Tina Bruce CBE’s most prominent writings from her accomplished 40-year international career in education centred on the Froebelian tradition. Chosen to illustrate the changes that have occurred in Professor Bruce’s thinking and practices over the last four decades, carefully selected readings address key Froebelian themes such as literacy, play, inclusion and creativity. Short introductions are provided for each chapter and excerpt, helping readers to understand the significance of what is presented and explaining how this relates to other chapters in the book. Including chapters from Tina Bruce’s best-selling books and articles, as well as leading journals, this collection offers a unique commentary on some of the most important issues in Early Childhood Education over the last four decades; it will be engaging and inspiring reading for anyone interested in the development and state of early years education in the UK and internationally.

Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies

Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies
Author: Glenda MacNaughton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005-04-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113435956X

Using case studies and real situations, this book highlights the important contribution that Foucault and other post-structural theorists can make to research and practice in early childhood services.

Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development

Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development
Author: Tatek Abebe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2024-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040109063

The Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and processes of economic development influence children’s lives. It demonstrates that children are not only the frequent targets or objects of development but that they also shape and influence processes of economic, political and sociocultural development. The handbook makes the case for the importance of placing children at the heart of development debates and demonstrates how researchers, policymakers and practitioners can engage children in development. Through reports on field research as well as a critical engagement with theories in development studies and childhood studies, contributors contest normative assumptions about childhood and global development. They tease out and tease apart the complex social, historical, cultural, economic, epidemiological, ecological, geopolitical, and institutional processes transforming what it means to be young in the world today. Showcasing research from both established scholars and early career researchers, and with particular prominence given to the work of authors from the global south, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, and for researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.

Research Journeys

Research Journeys
Author: Chloe Blackmore
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1443854883

The aim of this book is to provide prospective and current doctoral students, and their supervisors, with a range of narratives of doctoral experiences. The book is an outcome of a conference where both academic and professional doctorate students at different stages of their research shared their experiences of the process of completing a doctorate. The ten candid accounts included in the volume provide a valuable insight into the kinds of challenges that arise and the ways in which these might (or might not) be overcome. In so doing, this book ‘lifts the lid’ on some of the hitherto concealed aspects of the doctoral process. The book also includes a chapter from an established academic with a record of writing about the doctoral student experience, as well as inserts from a doctoral programme leader and an experienced academic supervisor. In the Introduction, the editors review some of the current literature on experiences of the doctoral research journey and the research process. The book concludes with the editors’ reflections on both the unique nature of doctoral research for each individual and the common stages that students experience on the journey.