Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education (Paperback)

Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms. The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	November 2011
Editors:	Joseph J. Tobin
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-18300-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Promotions
LSN:	0-300-18300-3
Barcode:	9780300183009

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