Contesting Childhood

Author : Kate Douglas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813549156
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Childhood written by Kate Douglas and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and cultural studies, Contesting Childhood draws on a varied selection of works from a diverse range of authorsùfrom first-time to experienced writers. Kate Douglas explores Australian accounts of the Stolen Generation, contemporary American and British narratives of abuse, the bestselling memoirs of Andrea Ashworth, Augusten Burroughs, Robert Drewe, Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Dave Pelzer, and Lorna Sage, among many others. Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped this genre. Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential. This study enables readers to discover how stories configure childhood within cultural memory and the public sphere.

Author : Affrica Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415687713
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood written by Affrica Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education. Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as: messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space. Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers.

Author : Michael Wyness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135709181
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Childhood written by Michael Wyness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on work from within the developing field of childhood studies, this text examines theoretical and policy driven understandings of the current position of children in society. Through an analysis of policy reforms and professional initiatives within educational child care and legal contexts, the author examines different, potentially competing viewpoints of childrens social position. Chapters are devoted to a number of related themes, including child policy and moral ambiguity, the limits to child protection, the individualization of schooling and childhood and citizenship.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113570919X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Childhood written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Woodiwiss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230245153
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse written by J. Woodiwiss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, 'recovered memories' and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims.

Author : Bronwyn Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317672267
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to Children written by Bronwyn Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of exquisite encounters with children, and through a lucid opening up of new aspects of poststructuralist theorizing, Bronwyn Davies opens up new ways of thinking about, and intra-acting with, children. This book carefully guides the reader through a wave of thought that turns the known into the unknown, and then slowly, carefully, makes new forms of thought comprehensible, opening, through all the senses, a deep understanding of our embeddedness in encounters with each other and with the material world. This book takes us into Reggio-Emilia-inspired Swedish preschools in Sweden, into the author’s own community in Australia, into poignant memories of childhood, and offers the reader insights into: new ways of thinking about children and their communities; the act of listening as emergent and alive; ourselves as mobile and multiple subjects; the importance of remaining open to the not-yet-known. Defining research as diffractive, and as experimental, Davies’ relationship to the teachers and pedagogues she worked with is one of co-experimentation. Her relationship with the children is one in which she explores the ways in which her own new thinking and being might emerge, even as old ways of thinking and being assert themselves and interfere with the unfolding of the new. She draws us into her ongoing experimentation, asking that we think hard, all the while delighting our senses with the poetry of her writing, and the stories of her encounters with children.

Author : Vea Vecchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136992219
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia written by Vea Vecchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia. It does so through the unique experience of Vea Vecchi, one of the first atelieristas to be appointed in Reggio Emilia in 1970. Part memoir, part conversation and part reflection, the book provides a unique insider perspective on the pedagogical work of this extraordinary local project, which continues to be a source of inspiration to early childhood practitioners and policy makers worldwide. Vea’s writing, full of beautiful examples, draws the reader in as she explains the history of the atelier and the evolving role of the atelierista. Key themes of the book include: • processes of learning and knowledge construction • the theory of the hundred languages of childhood and the role of poetic languages • the importance of organisation, ways of working and tools, in particular pedagogical documentation • the vital contribution of the physical environment • the relationship between the atelier, the atelierista, the school and its teachers This enlightening book is essential reading for students, practitioners, policy makers and researchers in early childhood education, and also for all those in other fields of education interested in the relationship between the arts and learning.

Author : Peter Moss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351966588
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood written by Peter Moss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics. Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood series to introduce readers to thinking that questions the mainstream approach to early childhood education and to offer rich examples to illustrate how this thinking is being put to work in practice. Key topics addressed include: dominant discourses in today’s early childhood education – and what is meant by ‘dominant discourse’ why politics and ethics are the starting points for early childhood education Reggio Emilia as an example of an alternative narrative the relevance to early childhood education of thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and of theoretical positions such as posthumanism. An enlightening read for students and practitioners, as well as policymakers, academics and parents, this book is intended for anyone who wants to think more about early childhood education and delve deeper into new perspectives and debates in this field.

Author : Liselott Mariett Olsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134032455
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning written by Liselott Mariett Olsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book connects apparently disparate subjects; the very young learning child in the field of early childhood education and the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari in the field of philosophy.

Author : Gunilla Dahlberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415280426
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education written by Gunilla Dahlberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of early childhood services, particularly the 'Reggio approach', this book presents essential ideas, theories and debates to an international audience and explores the ethical and political dimensions in this field.