Whose childhood is it? : the roles of children, adults, and policy makers
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Whose childhood is it? : the roles of children, adults, and policy makers
Continuum, c2009
- : pbk
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780826499813
Description
This is an important textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development. The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers of this book will enjoy, and be provoked by, a sophisticated analysis of the role and function of childhood in twenty-first century Britain. They will find themselves supported in discovering a discourse for early childhood which they will want to use as a springboard for further enquiry and exploration.There are two intertwined themes that permeate this text: children's sense of self and adult's temporal and cultural fabrications of childhood, and the articulation of these with policy and provision for young children and young children and representation: how they are represented, the sense they make of such representations and their own representational activity.
The book intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with a fuller, more complex, more troubling and more realistic understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood today.
Table of Contents
- 1. Earlier to earlier school?
- 2. Defining professional roles with young children: distinct or integrated?
- 3. Give SureStart a fair start?
- 4. Am I doing well on my outcomes?
- 5. Talk and control of knowledge in early years settings
- 6. Contextualised playing, contextualised learning
- 7. Children and screens: leaners of losers
- 8. Where do I fit in? Spaces that children have entry to and are debarred from.
- Conclusion.
- Volume
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: hardcover ISBN 9781441173577
Description
The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers will enjoy, and be provoked by, a sophisticated analysis of the role and function of childhood in twenty-first century Britain, which can be used as a springboard for further enquiry and exploration.
Two intertwined themes permeate the text:
- Children's sense of self and adults' temporal and cultural fabrications of childhood, and the articulation of these with policy and provision for young children.
- Young children and representation: how they are represented, the sense they make of such representations and their own representational activity.
Whose Childhood Is It? intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with a fuller, more complex, and more realistic understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood today.
This book takes a user-friendly approach, with key questions and reflection boxes throughout as well as chapter summaries and suggested further reading. It will provide a rich resource for students of Early Childhood Studies, and for Early Years professionals and those training to be Early Years practitioners.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Contributors
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Part 1: Policy and Childhood
Introduction
Chapter 1: Give Sure Start a Fair Start
Sue Norman
Chapter 2: "How well am I doing on my outcomes?"
Helen Butcher Jane Andrews
Chapter 3: Earlier and Earlier to School?
Christine Screech
Chapter 4: Integrating professional roles in early years around children's lives and learning
Jane Tarr
Part 2: Representation and Childhood
Introduction
Chapter 5: Children and Screens
Mandy Lee and Richard Eke
Chapter 6: Learning who can talk about what in early years settings
John Lee and Richard Eke
Chapter 7: Children Representing Experience
Richard Eke and John Lee
Chapter 8: Where do I fit in? Children's Spaces and Places
Alison Bailey and Stephen Barnes
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