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Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : languages of evaluation /

By: Dahlberg, Gunilla, 1945-.
Contributor(s): Moss, Peter, 1945- | Pence, Alan R, 1948-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007, (2008)Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxvi, 206 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415418488 (hardback); 9780415418485:; 9780415418485 (hardback); 0415418496 (pbk.); 9780415418492 (pbk.).Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Philosophy | Child care services | Postmodernism and education | Critical pedagogyDDC classification: 372.21
Contents:
What this book is about -- Theoretical perspectives : modernity and postmodernity, power and ethics -- Constructing early childhood : what do we think it is? -- Constructing the early childhood institution : what do we think they are for? -- Beyond the discourse of quality to the discourse of meaning making -- The Stockholm project : constructing a pedagogy that speaks in the voice of the child, the pedagogue and the parent -- Pedagogical documentation : a practice for reflection and democracy -- Minority directions in the majority world : threats and possibilities.
Summary: Taking a broad approach, this edition relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science, and to an analysis of the world we live in today.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 372.21 DAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0074630
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.

What this book is about -- Theoretical perspectives : modernity and postmodernity, power and ethics -- Constructing early childhood : what do we think it is? -- Constructing the early childhood institution : what do we think they are for? -- Beyond the discourse of quality to the discourse of meaning making -- The Stockholm project : constructing a pedagogy that speaks in the voice of the child, the pedagogue and the parent -- Pedagogical documentation : a practice for reflection and democracy -- Minority directions in the majority world : threats and possibilities.

Taking a broad approach, this edition relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science, and to an analysis of the world we live in today.

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