Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited - 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 Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited write by Joseph Tobin. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cultures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead author Joseph Tobin—along with new collaborators Yeh Hsueh and Mayumi Karasawa—revisits his original research to discover how two decades of globalization and sweeping social transformation have affected the way these three cultures educate and care for their youngest pupils. Putting their subjects’ responses into historical perspective, Tobin, Hsueh, and Karasawa analyze the pressures put on schools to evolve and to stay the same, discuss how the teachers adapt to these demands, and examine the patterns and processes of continuity and change in each country. Featuring nearly one hundred stills from the videotapes, Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited artfully and insightfully illustrates the surprising, illuminating, and at times entertaining experiences of four-year-olds—and their teachers—on both sides of the Pacific.
Preschool in Three Cultures
Preschool in Three Cultures - 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 Preschool in Three Cultures write by Joseph Jay Tobin. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Preschool in Three Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compares preschool education in the three countries, discusses how child care reflects social change and considers the issues of freedom, creativity, and discipline
Re-made in Japan
Re-made in Japan - 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 Re-made in Japan write by Joseph Jay Tobin. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Re-made in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonel Sanders, Elvis, Mickey Mouse, and Jack Daniels have been enthusiastically embraced by Japanese consumers in recent decades. But rather than simply imitate or borrow from the West, the Japanese reinterpret and transform Western products and practices to suit their culture. This entertaining and enlightening book shows how in the process of domesticating foreign goods and customs, the Japanese have created a culture in which once-exotic practices (such as ballroom dancing) have become familiar, and once- familiar practices (such as public bathing) have become exotic. Written by scholars from anthropology, sociology, and the humanities, the book ranges from analyses of Tokyo Disneyland and the Japanese passion for the Argentinean tango to discussions of Japanese haute couture and the search for an authentic nouvelle cuisine japonaise. These topics are approached from a variety of perspectives, with explorations of the interrelations of culture, ideology, and national identity and analyses of the roles that gender, class, generational, and regional differences play in the patterning of Japanese consumption. The result is a fascinating look at a dynamic society that is at once like and unlike our own.
Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
Making a Place for Pleasure 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 Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education write by Joseph J. Tobin. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these—spontaneous and pleasurable—are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms. The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education.
Teaching Embodied
Teaching Embodied - 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 Teaching Embodied write by Akiko Hayashi. This book was released on 2015-07-23. Teaching Embodied available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When we look beyond lesson planning and curricula—those explicit facets that comprise so much of our discussion about education—we remember that teaching is an inherently social activity, shaped by a rich array of implicit habits, comportments, and ways of communicating. This is as true in the United States as it is in Japan, where Akiko Hayashi and Joseph Tobin have long studied early education from a cross-cultural perspective. Taking readers inside the classrooms of Japanese preschools, Teaching Embodied explores the everyday, implicit behaviors that form a crucially important—but grossly understudied—aspect of educational practice. Akiko Hayashi and Joseph Tobin embed themselves in the classrooms of three different teachers at three different schools to examine how teachers act, think, and talk. Drawing on extended interviews, their own real-time observations, and hours of video footage, they focus on how teachers embody their lessons: how they use their hands to gesture, comfort, or discipline; how they direct their posture, gaze, or physical location to indicate degrees of attention; and how they use the tone of their voice to communicate empathy, frustration, disapproval, or enthusiasm. Comparing teachers across schools and over time, they offer an illuminating analysis of the gestures that comprise a total body language, something that, while hardly ever explicitly discussed, the teachers all share to a remarkable degree. Showcasing the tremendous importance of—and dearth of attention to—this body language, they offer a powerful new inroad into educational study and practice, a deeper understanding of how teaching actually works, no matter what culture or country it is being practiced in.
