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Inspired by the idea of documentation as a valuable tool for making learning visible, pedagogical narration offers an opportunity to move beyond checklists and quick answers to a more complex understanding of how children learn, and how teachers might facilitate and support that learning in innovative ways. The authors use stories they collected during a collaborative study to offer a range of possibilities for alternative childhood pedagogies. Cutting edge, yet practical; detailed in its analysis, yet inspiring, this book is a boon to the field of early childhood and primary education studies.
Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate early childhood policy making today - ‘the story of quality and high returns’ and ‘the story of markets’, stories that promise high returns on investment if only the right technologies are applied to children and the perfection of a system based on competition and individual choice. But there are alternative stories and this book tells one: a ‘story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality’ in which early childhood centres are public spaces and public resources, places where de...
La mirada de l’art, lúcida i densa, és capaç d’afrontar amb èxit els reptes de la societat actual, de resoldre amb esperit crític molts dels fenòmens de la nostra cultura, integrant-hi fins i tot les seues contradiccions. Des d’un panorama de l’ensenyament poc favorable a les humanitats, el paper de l’educació artística havia de ser replantejat pels mateixos estaments implicats. En aquest llibre es recull l’opinió de prestigiosos especialistes, protagonistes reconeguts dels més diversos àmbits: artistes, crítics de l’art, pedagogs, polítics, responsables de gabinets didàctics i evidentment professionals de l’ensenyament de l’art. Tots hi aporten visions contrastades i lúcides sobre allò que ha estat, el que és, o bé el que hauria de ser l’educació artística.
Presentamos un trabajo que descubre las posibilidades que ofrecen los escenarios habituales del aula de Educación Infantil para el desarrollo del aprendizaje de los niños. Las autoras proponen múltiples estrategias para la resolución de situaciones problemáticas y reflexionar sobre lo sucedido.
Written by two leading international experts, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of ‘childcare’ services, widespread privatisation and marketisation, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems, and the causes and consequences of these failings. But this book is ultimately about hope, about how these failings might be made good through major changes. In other words, it is about transformation: why transformation i...
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Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics. Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood series to introduce readers to thinking that questions the mainstream approach to early childhood education and to offer rich examples to illustrate how this thinking is being put to work in practice. Key topics addressed include: dominant discourses in today’s early childhood education – and what is me...