Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education
By: edited by Nicola Yelland
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Open University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Maidenhead
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780335240814; 9781283338783
Subjects: Early childhood education
Description: This 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education / Nicola Yelland; title: Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: a multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion / Hillevi Lenz Taguchi; title: Between two debts: child and (inter)national development / Erica Burman; title: Shaping the future: how human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries / Helen Penn; title: Reframing rights: poverty discourse and children's lives in the United States / Valerie Polakow; title: The displaces early childhood education in the postcolonial era of Hong Kong / Gail Yuen; title: National 'treasures': the Aotearoa New Zealand child / Judith Duncan; title: Investigating quality project: opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada / Alan Pence and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw; title: When words are scarce, but success depends on them: composting in a Navajo kindergarten / Karen Gallas; title: Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing / Anne Haas Dyson; title: 'Improper' children / Liz Jones ... [et al.]; title: 'Like a wild thing': analysing the 'deviant competence' of girls in home-preschool communications / Michele Leiminer; title: At home with the future: influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies / Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman; title: When robots tell a story about culture... and children tell a story about learning / Marina Umaschi Bers; title: The early years research-policy-practice nexus: challenges and opportunities / Christine Stephen.