Critical issues in early childhood education
By: edited by Nicola Yelland.
Contributors: Yelland, Nicola.
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Maidenhead; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Early childhood education -- Great Britain; Early childhood education -- Great Britain -- Evaluation
Description: "This book challenges long-established beliefs about early childhood education. It offers readers the opportunity to think about those aspects of their profession that are fundamental to providing effective and equitable educational opportunities for young children in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Against the tide : new ways in early childhood education; title: Reconceptualizing the field (of early care and education) : if "western" child development is a problem, then what do we do?; title: Developmental theory and early childhood education : necessary but not sufficient; title: How "bad" can it be? : Troubling gender, sexuality, and early chilldhood teaching; title: Preschool children's portrayals of their male teacher : a poststructuralist analysis; title: Who can speak? : Silence, voice and pedagogy; title: Freedom to choose : examining children's experiences in choice time; title: Learning to be a child : cultural diversity and early years ideology; title: Questioning diversity; title: Secret children's business : resisting and redefining access to learning in the early childhood classroom; title: "Civilizaiton of replicas" : disrupting multicultural pretend play props; title: Digikids : young children, popular culture and media; title: Literarily lost : the quest for quality literacy agendas in early childhood education; title: Curriculum, padagogies and practice with ICT in the information age; title: Postmodernism, passion and potential for future childhoods.