Understanding Early Childhood : Issues and Controversies

by Penn, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780335225507
• ISBN10: 0335225500
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr

Summary

Understanding Early Childhood provides students with a clear, user-friendly introduction to a number of difficult concepts and theories in early childhood education. It draws on research evidence from various countries and reviews studies about children from different disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, psychology and sociology. Helen Penn offers broad and insightful perspectives on the ways in which we understand and study young children.

Author Biography

Helen Penn is Professor of Early Childhood at the School of Education, University of East London, UK, where she is also co-Director of the International Research Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare (ICMEC).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Remembering childhood	p. 1
Researching reality	p. 21
Not Piaget again	p. 38
Genes, neurons and ancestors	p. 63
On the other side of the world	p. 93
Past, present and future	p. 113
Children's rights	p. 132
What it costs and what it's worth: the economics of early childhood	p. 146
Practice makes no difference	p. 163
Postscript: an interdisciplinary approach?	p. 191
References	p. 195
Index	p. 209
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.