Contemporary Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

by Yelland, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9780335237876
• ISBN10: 0335237878
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Nicola Yelland is a Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Contemporary perspectives on global and policy issues	p. 1
Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education	p. 3
Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: a multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion	p. 14
Between two debts: child and (inter)national development	p. 33
Shaping the future: how human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries	p. 49
Reframing rights: poverty discourse and children's lives in the United States	p. 66
The displaced early childhood education in the postcolonial are of Hong Kong	p. 83
National 'Treasures': the Aotearoa New Zealand child	p. 100
Investigating Quality project: opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada	p. 121
Critical views in practice	p. 139
When words are scarce, but success depends on them: composing in a Navajo Kindergarten	p. 141
Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing	p. 159
'Improper' children	p. 177
'Like a wild thing': analysing the 'deviant competence' of girls in home-preschool communications	p. 192
At home with the future: influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies	p. 210
When robots tell a story about culture...and children tell a story about learning	p. 227
The early years research-policy-practice nexus: challenges and opportunities	p. 248
Index	p. 265
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