Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education write by Hillevi Lenz Taguchi. This book was released on 2009-09-10. Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education focuses on the use of pedagogical documentation as a tool for learning and transformation. Based on innovative research, the author presents new approaches to learning in early childhood education, shifting attention to the force and impact which material objects and artefacts can have in learning. Drawing upon the theories of feminist Karen Barad and philosophers Gille Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi discusses examples of how pens, paper, clay and construction materials can be understood as active and performative agents, challenging binary divides such as theory/practice, discourse/matter and mind/body in teaching and learning. Numerous examples from practice are explored to introduce an intra-active pedagogy. 'Methodological' strategies for learning with children in preschools, and in teacher education, are brought to the fore. For example: the neighbourhood around the preschool and children's homes is explored, using drawing and construction-work on the floor; mathematics is investigated in teacher education, using the body, dance and music to investigate mathematical relationships and problems; taken-for-granted forms of academic writing are challenged by different forms of praxis- and experience-based writings that transgress the theory/practice divide; children, students and teacher educators use pedagogical documentation to understand their own learning, and to critique dominant habits of thinking and doing. Challenging the dominant understanding of ‘inclusion’ in educational contexts, and making ‘difference’ actively visible and positive, this book is rooted in the experiences, practices and words of teachers, teacher educators and student teachers. It will appeal to all those involved in early childhood education and also to those interested in challenging educational thinking and practices.
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care write by Gunilla Dahlberg. This book was released on 2007-01-24. Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.
The Posthuman Child
The Posthuman Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Posthuman Child write by Karin Murris. This book was released on 2016-03-17. The Posthuman Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.
Beginnings & Beyond
Beginnings & Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beginnings & Beyond write by Ann Miles Gordon. This book was released on 1989. Beginnings & Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Upon completion of study with Beginnings & Beyond, students will have an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of early childhood education -- from its history to present issues and future trends. They will appreciate the emphasis on multiculturalism and NAEYC's developmentally appropriate practice. This approach promotes a "both/and" viewpoint, maintaining that there is more than one correct way to care for and educate young children. The text focuses on this viewpoint in discussions of early literacy, spiritual development, discipline, diversity and anti-bias strategies and family relationships. Beginnings & Beyond also stresses the importance of maintaining an awareness of each child's needs and interests by featuring such concepts as multiple intelligence, ecological theory and NAEYC's Code of Ethical Conduct. The use of a variety of sidebars, chapter activities, integrated technology and other extras enhance the student's interest in and retention of the material.
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curriculum in Early Childhood Education write by Nancy File. This book was released on 2012-01-30. Curriculum in Early Childhood Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Reexamined, Rediscovered, Renewed provides a critical examination of the sources, aims, and features of early childhood curricula. Providing a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and learning, this book will provoke discussion and analysis among all readers. How has theory been used to understand, develop, and critique curriculum? Whose perspectives are dominant and whose are ignored? How is diversity addressed? What values are explicit and implicit? The book first contextualizes the historical and research base of early childhood curriculum, and then turns to discussions of various schools of theory and philosophy that have served to support curriculum development in early childhood education. An examination of current curriculum frameworks is offered, both from the US and abroad, including discussion of the Project Approach, Creative Curriculum, Te Whāriki, and Reggio Emilia. Finally, the book closes with chapters that enlarge the topic to curriculum-being-enacted through play and that summarize key issues while pointing out future directions for the field. Offering a broad foundation for examining curriculum in early childhood, readers will emerge with a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies intersect with curriculum development.
