{"product_id":"a-new-vision-for-early-childhood-9781032577029","title":"A New Vision for Early Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative and thought-provoking book invites you to move away from strategies of control and toward relationships of trust with young children. This book presents the conceptual foundation for this re-framed relationship as well as pragmatic takeaways for parents and teachers of preschool-aged children. The book offers a concise, critical history of early childhood which is then laid against the authorâs ethnographic research into the daily life of one 2-year-old. This unique and refreshing perspective offers intimate insight into the tension between the adultâs desire for control and the childâs capacity for resistance. The author argues that when the adult-child relationship is defined by control, the child is faced with the same choice on repeat: submit, or resist. Taking action in accordance with personal wants and needs typically requires transgressing adult expectations. For the child, in todayâs hyper-surveilled childhood, to speak up is to resist. Moving these ideas fr\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019124572503,"sku":"9781032577029","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032577029.jpg?v=1750779383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-new-vision-for-early-childhood-9781032577029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}