Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300069685
ISBN13:9780300069686
Release Date:April 1997
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"
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A Scholarly Collection for Thoughtful Readers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is a collection of articles by some leading theorists working in early childhood education and childhood cultural studies. Contributors consider and challenge discourses of early childhood education that have normalized particular perspectives on the good child and good teacher of early childhood. For those who think that the lives of young children and their teachers are a bit more complicated than the world of Barney, this is a thought-provoking, important read.
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