Description
Book SynopsisThis book considers and interrogates a range of new and critical issues in contemporary early childhood education. It discusses both fundamental and emerging topics in the field, and presents them in the context of reflective and contemporary frameworks.
Bringing together leading experts whose work is at the cutting edge of contemporary early childhood education theory and research across the world, this book considers the care and education of young children from a global perspective and deals with issues and groups of children or families that are often marginalized.
The contributing authors challenge traditional views and maintain that new ways of thinking and doing are required in these new times. The chapters in this book highlight some of the most important issues as catalysts for discussion and critique.
Central to the discussions is the notion that these are complex issues that warrant debate and that there are often no simple solutions to them. These theor
Table of Contents
Part 1 Contemporary perspectives on global and policy issues
Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education
Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: A multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion
Between two debts: Child and (inter)national development
Shaping the future: How human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries
Reframing rights: Poverty discourses and children's lives in the United States
The displaced early childhood education in the postcolonial era of Hong Kong
National 'treasures': The Aotearoa New Zealand child
Investigating 'Quality' project: Opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada
Part 2 Critical views in practice
When words are scarce, but success depends on them: Composing in a Navajo kindergarten
Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing
'Improper' children
Like a wild thing': Analysing the 'deviant' competence of girls in home-preschool communications
At home with the future: Influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies
When robots tell a story about culture... and children tell a story about learning
The early years research-policy-practice nexus: Challenges and opportunities.
