""This innovative and challenging book offers a refreshing and
vigorous response to those who seek to create childhoods that are
standardized, over-regulated and framed within a
'one-size-fits-all' approach. It demonstrates how childhoods are
multiple, complex and multi-faceted in a global context and
outlines approaches to policy and practice that celebrate diversity
and address contemporary concerns such as poverty, children's
rights and quality in early childhood education. This is a book
that should be read by researchers, practitioners, students and
policy-makers alike: each will find important material that will
change their thinking about early childhood education in the 21st
century.""
Professor Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield, UK
""An important addition to the growing body of literature
contesting mainstream and standardising early childhood education,
offering a rich, diverse and critical menu of work about both
policy and practice.""
Professor Peter Moss, Institute of Education University of London,
UK
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.
Bringing together leading experts whose work is at the cutting
edge of contemporary early childhood education theory and research
across the world, this book considers the care and education of
young children from a global perspective and deals with issues and
groups of children or families that are often marginalized.
The contributing authors challenge traditional views and
maintain that new ways of thinking and doing are required in these
new times. The chapters in this book highlight some of the most
important issues as catalysts for discussion and critique.
Central to the discussions is the notion that these are complex
issues that warrant debate and that there are often no simple
solutions to them. These theoretical perspectives are situated in
practice with the use of engaging case studies.
This edited collection is essential reading for anyone studying
or working in early childhood education.
Contributors: Marina Umaschi Bers, Erica Burman, Judith Duncan,
Anne Haas Dyson, Karen Gallas, Rachael Holmes, Elizabeth Jones,
Michelle Leiminer, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Maggie MacLure, Christina
MacRae, Joanna McPake, Veronica Pacini Ketchabaw, Alan Pence, Helen
Penn, Lydia Plowman, Valerie Polakow, Christine Stephen, Gail
Yuen.
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