Developmentalism in early childhood and middle grades education
Subtitle: critical conversations on readiness and responsiveness
By: edited by Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle
Contributors: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Critical cultural studies of childhood
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780230107854
Subjects: Education; Elementary Education; Child development
Description: In this book, the contributors challenge dominant discourses and practices in the fields of early childhood and middle grades education that are based on the last century's grand developmental theories. The contributors to this book examine the notion of development in their own work by employing various alternative frameworks, including Bakhtinian ideas, Buddhism, cultural psychology, and post-structuralism. Exploring issues related to developmentalism within and across the fields, the contributors invite the reader to participate in the cross-field dialogue which provides new language and perspectives for the education of young children, young adolescents, and teachers in both fields.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: General Introduction: Developmentalism and the Need for Critical Conversations Within and Across the Fields / Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle; title: What's More Important: Numbers or Shoes?: Readiness, Curriculum and Nonsense in a Rural Preschool / Amy Noelle Parks and Sarah Bridges-Rhoads; title: Who is Normal? Who is Abnormal?: Rethinking Child Development from a Cultural Psychological Perspective / Kyunghwa Lee; title: Being Present in the Middle School Years / Hilary G. Conklin; title: Am I a Novice Teacher?: The Voices of Induction Teachers in a Preschool / Su Kyoung Park and Amy Noelle Parks; title: Responsivity Rather than Readiness / Elizabeth Graue; title: Pursuing an Answerable Education for Young Adolescents / Mark D. Vagle; title: Black Adolescent Identity, Double-Consciousness, and a Socio-Historically Constructed Adolescence / Lisa Harrison; title: Fourteen is the New Thirty: Adolescent Girls, their Bodies, and Sexuality / Hilary E. Hughes; title: The SMART Board as an Adolescent Classroom Technology / Sarah Bridges-Rhoads; title: A Schismatic Family and a Gated Community? / Mark D. Vagle and Amy Parks; title: Walking the Borderland / Kyunghwa Lee and Hilary Conklin.