Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child
Author: Alison Clark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2022-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000823369

This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to enable an ‘unhurried child’ and less hurried adults. Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child is divided in three parts. Part 1, Reasons to be slow, looks at the pressures in Early Childhood Education and Care to speed up and for children to be ‘readied’ for the next stage. The book then explores different relationships with time for young children and educators. Part 2, Slow pedagogies and practices, explore some of the forms slow practices can take including outdoors, in the studio, in everyday routines, through stories, in pedagogical documentation and in ‘slow’ research. Part 3, Moving forward, shows what a ‘timefull’ approach to ECEC can look like, whilst debating the challenges and possibilities that exist. The book serves as a catalyst for urgent discussion about the need to slow down in early childhood education and teacher education and explores case studies of where slow early childhood education are already happening. It will be a key reading for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers about the relationship with time in early childhood and the importance of taking a longer view.

Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care

Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Author: Gunilla Dahlberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113411351X

This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.

Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood
Author: Peter Moss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-07-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351966588

Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics. Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood series to introduce readers to thinking that questions the mainstream approach to early childhood education and to offer rich examples to illustrate how this thinking is being put to work in practice. Key topics addressed include: dominant discourses in today’s early childhood education – and what is meant by ‘dominant discourse’ why politics and ethics are the starting points for early childhood education Reggio Emilia as an example of an alternative narrative the relevance to early childhood education of thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and of theoretical positions such as posthumanism. An enlightening read for students and practitioners, as well as policymakers, academics and parents, this book is intended for anyone who wants to think more about early childhood education and delve deeper into new perspectives and debates in this field.

Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition
Author: Alison Clark
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1909391263

Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children's views and experiences can stay in focus in early childhood provision. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing and observation to enable adults to review current practice and implement change with children. Combining the authors' successful books Listening to Young Children and Spaces to Play into an expanded and fully updated third edition, this book builds on the authors' original ground-breaking work by commenting on the development and adaptation of the Mosaic approach, along with case studies of the Mosaic approach in action in four countries: England, Denmark, Norway and Australia. Alongside guidance on using and adapting the framework with young children, older children and adults, there is new material on the ethical and methodological issues involved.

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education
Author: Marianne N. Bloch
Publisher: Rethinking Childhood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Early childhood education
ISBN: 9781433123665

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. Audiences include students in graduate courses focused on early childhood and primary education, critical cultural studies of childhood, critical curriculum studies and critical theories.

The Sun's Not Broken, a Cloud's Just in the Way

The Sun's Not Broken, a Cloud's Just in the Way
Author: Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780876591093

This book is full of practical teaching ideas, techniques for communicating with parents, and administrative strategies to motivate and inspire. Once you pick it up, you will want to share this book with other teachers.

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood
Author: Affrica Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136672176

In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.Through adopting a common worlds fram

We Are All Explorers

We Are All Explorers
Author: Daniel R. Scheinfeld
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008-09-21
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This is a rich, well-documented, and thoughtful description and analysis of how an early child development program serving low-income, inner-city children and families in Chicago has been exploring and implementing the principles of early childhood education developed in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Rapunzel's Supermarket

Rapunzel's Supermarket
Author: Ursula Kolbe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2007
Genre: Child artists
ISBN: 9780975772218

onderful resource for all who live and work with young children.

Deconstructing Early Childhood Education

Deconstructing Early Childhood Education
Author: Gaile Sloan Cannella
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

From a critical perspective, some early childhood educators have proposed that the knowledge base used to ground the field actually serves to support the status quo, reinforces prejudices and stereotypes, and ignores the real lives of children. The purpose of this book is to deconstruct early childhood education, identifying and evaluating the themes and forms of discourse that have dominated the field, leading to the construction of specific theories and forms of practice that privilege particular groups of children and adults and oppress others. An alternative avenue for early childhood education is posited that focuses on social justice and human agency.