Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Postmodern Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 0750707690
- ISBN-13
- 9780750707695
- Series
- Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
- Category
- Child care
- Pages
- 206
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Authors
- Peter Moss, Alan R. Pence, Gunilla Dahlberg
Description
Working with postmodern ideas, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management. In its place, it offers alternative ways of understanding early childhood, early childhood institutions and pedagogical work. It gives full consideration to the importance of social construction and meaning making, and to documentation and dialogue, The book places issues of early childhood into a global context and relates them to writers from many fields. Drawing on work with aboriginal peoples in Canada, on the experience of Reggio-Emilia in Italy and on a project in Stockholm inspired by Reggio, the book considers the implications of these alternative ways of understanding, for practice and a reconceptualization of early childhood education and care.
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