The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care

Michel VandenBroeck, Joanne Lehrer, Linda Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC... Lees meer

Young Children's Community Building in Action

Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Jenny Ritchie, Lavina Dynevor

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Rethinking the concepts of citizenship and community in relation to young children, this groundbreaking text examines how indigenous understandings an... Lees meer

Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education

Peter Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, b... Lees meer

Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education

Guy Roberts-Holmes, Peter Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots ... Lees meer

Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education

Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education focuses on the use of pedagogical documentation as a tool for learning and transf... Lees meer

Becoming Pedagogue

Liselott Mariett Olsson

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Returning to the origins of education, Becoming Pedagogue explores its role in today's society by reuniting philosophy with pedagogy. It investigates ... Lees meer

Listening to Children

Bronwyn Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Through a series of exquisite encounters with children, and through a lucid opening up of new aspects of poststructuralist theorizing, Bronwyn Davies ... Lees meer

Young Children Becoming Curriculum

Marg Sellers

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This book contests a tradition and convention in educational thinking that dichotomises children and curriculum, by developing the notion of re(con)ce... Lees meer

Young Children's Community Building in Action

Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Jenny Ritchie, Lavina Dynevor, Jared Lambert, Kerryn Moroney

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Rethinking the concepts of citizenship and community in relation to young children, this groundbreaking text examines the ways in which indigenous und... Lees meer

The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care

Michel VandenBroeck, Joanne Lehrer, Linda Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC... Lees meer

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Affrica Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and ped... Lees meer

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Alison Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points... Lees meer

Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

Michel VandenBroeck, Jan De Vos, Wim Fias

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines construction... Lees meer

'Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible'

Helen Penn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• An astute exploration of the complexities of working and learning in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care, Professor Helen Penn tells of he... Lees meer

Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia

Vea Vecchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) ... Lees meer

'Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible'

Helen Penn

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• An astute exploration of the complexities of working and learning in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care, Professor Helen Penn tells of he... Lees meer

Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood

Peter Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative na... Lees meer

In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia

Carlina Rinaldi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• Reggio Emilia's educational services for 0-6 year olds are widely acclaimed as one of the best systems in the world. Now in an updated second edition,... Lees meer

Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education

Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the 'Reggio approach', and ot... Lees meer

Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning

Liselott Mariett Olsson

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined... Lees meer

Revisiting Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This reflection on Paulo Freire's seminal volume, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , examines the lessons learnt from Freire and their place in contemporary ... Lees meer

The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia

Stefania Giamminuti, Paola Cagliari, Claudia Giudici, Paola Strozzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• The Role of the Pedagogista in Reggio Emilia offers unparalleled insight into dialectic encounters between teachers, pedagogistas, and atelieristas in... Lees meer

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child

Alison Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points... Lees meer

Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era

Tonya Rooney, Mindy Blaise

• Paperback | Engels | Contesting Early Childhood
• As the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate chall... Lees meer