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
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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
|
LSN: |
0-300-18300-3 |
Barcode: |
9780300183009 |
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