Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education /
Contributor(s): Yelland, Nicola
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Publisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2010Description: xvi, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780335237869 (hbk.); 9780335237869:; 033523786X (hbk.); 9780335237876 (pbk.); 0335237878 (pbk.).Subject(s): Early childhood education![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extending possibilities and practices in early childhood education / Nicola Yelland -- Rethinking pedagogical practices in early childhood education: a multidimensional approach to learning and inclusion / Hillevi Lenz Taguchi -- Between two debts: child and (inter)national development / Erica Burman -- Shaping the future: how human capital arguments about investment in early childhood are being (mis)used in poor countries / Helen Penn -- Reframing rights: poverty discourse and children's lives in the United States / Valerie Polakow -- The displaces early childhood education in the postcolonial era of Hong Kong / Gail Yuen -- National 'treasures': the Aotearoa New Zealand child / Judith Duncan -- Investigating quality project: opening possibilities in early childhood care and education policies and practices in Canada / Alan Pence and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw -- When words are scarce, but success depends on them: composting in a Navajo kindergarten / Karen Gallas -- Childhoods left behind? Official and unofficial basics of child writing / Anne Haas Dyson -- 'Improper' children / Liz Jones ... [et al.] -- 'Like a wild thing': analysing the 'deviant competence' of girls in home-preschool communications / Michele Leiminer -- At home with the future: influences on young children's early experiences with digital technologies / Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman -- When robots tell a story about culture... and children tell a story about learning / Marina Umaschi Bers -- The early years research-policy-practice nexus: challenges and opportunities / Christine Stephen.
This book considers & interrogates a range of new & critical issues in contemporary early childhood education. It discusses both fundamental & emerging topics in the field, & presents them in the context of reflective & contemporary frameworks.