Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Author: Alison Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367508807

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Alison Clark through this book, points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to enable an 'unhurried child' and less hurried adults.


Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Author: Alison Clark

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1000823369

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This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to enable an ‘unhurried child’ and less hurried adults. Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child is divided in three parts. Part 1, Reasons to be slow, looks at the pressures in Early Childhood Education and Care to speed up and for children to be ‘readied’ for the next stage. The book then explores different relationships with time for young children and educators. Part 2, Slow pedagogies and practices, explore some of the forms slow practices can take including outdoors, in the studio, in everyday routines, through stories, in pedagogical documentation and in ‘slow’ research. Part 3, Moving forward, shows what a ‘timefull’ approach to ECEC can look like, whilst debating the challenges and possibilities that exist. The book serves as a catalyst for urgent discussion about the need to slow down in early childhood education and teacher education and explores case studies of where slow early childhood education are already happening. It will be a key reading for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers about the relationship with time in early childhood and the importance of taking a longer view.


Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

Author: Peter Moss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1351966588

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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 meant by ‘dominant discourse’ why politics and ethics are the starting points for early childhood education Reggio Emilia as an example of an alternative narrative the relevance to early childhood education of thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and of theoretical positions such as posthumanism. An enlightening read for students and practitioners, as well as policymakers, academics and parents, this book is intended for anyone who wants to think more about early childhood education and delve deeper into new perspectives and debates in this field.


Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education

Author: Marianne N. Bloch

Publisher: Rethinking Childhood

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433123665

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Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. Audiences include students in graduate courses focused on early childhood and primary education, critical cultural studies of childhood, critical curriculum studies and critical theories.


Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition

Author: Alison Clark

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2017-06-21

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1909391263

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Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children's views and experiences can stay in focus in early childhood provision. The multi-method approach brings together digital tools with interviewing and observation to enable adults to review current practice and implement change with children. Combining the authors' successful books Listening to Young Children and Spaces to Play into an expanded and fully updated third edition, this book builds on the authors' original ground-breaking work by commenting on the development and adaptation of the Mosaic approach, along with case studies of the Mosaic approach in action in four countries: England, Denmark, Norway and Australia. Alongside guidance on using and adapting the framework with young children, older children and adults, there is new material on the ethical and methodological issues involved.


The Sun's Not Broken, a Cloud's Just in the Way

The Sun's Not Broken, a Cloud's Just in the Way

Author: Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780876591093

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This book is full of practical teaching ideas, techniques for communicating with parents, and administrative strategies to motivate and inspire. Once you pick it up, you will want to share this book with other teachers.


We Are All Explorers

We Are All Explorers

Author: Daniel R. Scheinfeld

Publisher:

Published: 2008-09-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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This is a rich, well-documented, and thoughtful description and analysis of how an early child development program serving low-income, inner-city children and families in Chicago has been exploring and implementing the principles of early childhood education developed in Reggio Emilia, Italy.


Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Author: Affrica Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1136672176

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In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.Through adopting a common worlds fram


Learning Stories

Learning Stories

Author: Margaret Carr

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-03-19

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 144625819X

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Margaret Carr′s seminal work on Learning Stories was first published by SAGE in 2001, and this widely acclaimed approach to assessment has since gained a huge international following. In this new full-colour book, the authors outline the philosophy behind Learning Stories and refer to the latest findings from the research projects they have led with teachers on learning dispositions and learning power, to argue that Learning Stories can construct learner identities in early childhood settings and schools. By making the connection between sociocultural approaches to pedagogy and assessment, and narrative inquiry, this book contextualizes Learning Stories as a philosophical approach to education, learning and pedagogy. Chapters explore how Learning Stories: - help make connections with families - support the inclusion of children and family voices - tell us stories about babies - allow children to dictate their own stories - can be used to revisit children′s learning journeys - can contribute to teaching and learning wisdom This ground-breaking book expands on the concept of Learning Stories and includes examples from practice in both New Zealand and the UK. It outlines the philosophy behind this pedagogical tool for documenting how learning identities are constructed and shows, through research evidence, why the early years is such a critical time in the formation of learning dispositions. Margaret Carr is a Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Wendy Lee is Director of the Educational Leadership Project, New Zealand.