Beyond Quality In Early Childhood Education And Care: Languages Of Evaluation ((2nd edition))

By: Gunilla Dahlberg and Peter Moss and Alan Pence

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Synopsis: Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia. Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement. With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 229 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780415418485
Publisher:: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 10/31/19
Copyrighted By:: Gunila Dahlberg, Peter Moss, Alan Pence
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Taylor and Francis VIP Team
Proofread By:: Taylor and Francis VIP Team
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.