Description
Book Synopsis"This book is a valuable contribution to the creation of a more critical and theoretically diverse approach to early childhood policy and practice. Through many vivid examples and a varied cast-list of authors, both academics and practitioners, it shows the potential of this approach for pedagogical work in early childhood institutions and the education of the early childhood workforce."
Professor Peter Moss, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. âœIn the era of No Child Left Behind in the U.S., you might think that the landscape of educational research and practice has been transformed into a row of âscientificâ models and unvarying curricular scripts. Nicola Yelland's volume will persuade you that, in contrast, the landscape in early childhood education is varied and full of unconventional angles. The authors examine virtually every significant aspect of curricular practice and postmodernist theory, while challenging readers to be skeptics themselves â
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
Against the Tide: New way in Early Childhood Education
Nicola Yelland and Anna Kilderry
PART I CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND TEACHING
Chapter 2
Reconceptualizing the field (of early care and education): If ‘western’ child development is a problem, then what do we do?
Gaile S. Cannella
Chapter 3
Developmental theory and early childhood education: Necessary but not sufficient
Daniel J. Walsh
Chapter 4
How ‘bad’ can it be?: Troubling gender, sexuality and early childhood teaching
Mindy Blaise and Yarrow Andrew.
Chapter 5
Preschool children’s portrayals of their male teacher: A poststructural analysis
Jennifer Sumsion
Chapter 6
Who Can Speak? Silence, Voice, and Pedagogy
Jonathan Silin
PART II RETHINKING EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICES
Chapter 7
Freedom to choose: Examining children’s experience in choice time
Sharon Ryan
Chapter 8
Learning to be a child: Cultural diversity and Early Years ideology
Liz Brooker
Chapter 9
Questioning diversity
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones
Chapter 10
Secret children’s business: Resisting and redefining access to learning in the early childhood classroom
Sheralyn Campbell
Chapter 11
‘Civilization and replicas’: Disrupting multicultural pretend play props
Richard Johnson
PART III THE EMERGENCE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND LITERACIES
Chapter 12
Digikids: Young children, popular culture and media
Jackie Marsh
Chapter 13
Literarily Lost: the quest for meaningful literacy agendas in early childhood education
Leonie Rowan and Eileen Honan
Chapter 14
Curriculum, pedagogies and practice with ICT in the information age
Nicola Yelland
Chapter 15
Postmodernism, passion and potential for future childhoods
Nicola Yelland and Anna Kilderry
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