This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.
Drawing on a range of early childhood services, particularly the 'Reggio approach', this book presents essential ideas, theories and debates to an international audience and explores the ethical and political dimensions in this field.
The book is filled with recent scholarship by leading authors in the reconceptualization and rethinking of childhood studies and early childhood fields, who discuss foundational debates, new imaginaries in theory and practice and activist ...
Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge ...
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 ...
̄ ̄ ̄ 56.74 Note of meeting of Comitati di Scuola e Città at which Malaguzzi was present, October 1974 MUNICIPIO DI ... (Scuola Robinson), Ottavio Badodi (Scuola Passo Buole), Ermes Caraffi (Scuola di Sesso), Luciano Guidotti (Scuola ...
In this book we address this concern by identifying two principles for using play-based learning early childhood environmental education.
This book identifies the gaps needing to be bridged to achieve a more inclusive and 'just' early childhood education, in relation to class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, disabilities and age, and explores various ways of bridging ...
Data from the Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS Starting Strong) show that novice (i.e. those who have been in the field for three years or less) and more experienced ECEC staff have similar profiles of ...
Dunlop (2006), “Outcomes of good practice in transition processes for children entering primary school”, ... “Transition and adjustment to school” in Transitions to school – International research, policy & practice, Springer, ...
In supporting children’s development, countries invest in the future successes of economies and societies.