Reframing the early childhood curriculum : educational imperatives for the future /
By: Page, Jane M
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Series: Futures and education series.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xii, 132 p. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415191180 (pbk.); 9780415191180:.Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Curricula![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-126) and index.
Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations ix -- Acknowledgements xi --Introduction 1 --1 Children's rights and adults' responsibilities: reinterpreting educational ethics 4 --2 Four- and five-year-old children's understandings of time and the future 16 --3 Futures studies: a catalyst for social and educational change 32 --4 Futures studies and education 42 --5 Futures studies and early childhood education 53 --6 Applying futures concerns to the early childhood curriculum 64 --7 Applying futures values to the early childhood curriculum 78 --8 Early childhood professionals as agents of change 86 --Bibliography 99 -- Index 127.
This work argues that pre-school children have a less apprehensive concept of the future than adolescents and that an effective programme in the early years can counteract the difficulties youths experience.