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Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood
  • ISBN-13: 9781907359026
  • Publisher: HAWTHORN PRESS
    Imprint: HAWTHORN PRESS
  • By Richard House
  • Price: AUD $57.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2011
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 376 pages Weight: 694g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, 'adultification', and the government's 'nappy curriculum' which 'schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the 'right learning at the right time' in children's growth — learning when they are developmentally ready.Following an extensive introduction by Richard House, looking at 'toxic childhood' in context, the book is divided into four parts: Policy Making and the Erosion of Childhood: the Case of the Early Years Foundation Stage The Foundations of Child Development and Early Learning: Perspectives, Principles and Practices Advocacy, Research and Policy Making for Children's Early Years Learning Ways Ahead to Achievable Futures
Introduction - toxic childhood in context, Richard House; 23 articles in four parts: part 1; Policy Making and the Erosion of Childhood: the Case of the Early Years Foundation Stage, incl. Penelope Leach, The EYFS and the Real Foundations of Children's Early Years: Part II; The Foundations of Child Development and Early Learning: Perspectives, Principles and Practices incuding Physical Foundations for Learning, Sally Goddard Blythe; Can we Play, David Elkind: Part III; Advocacy, Research and Policy making for Children's Early Years Learning: Part IV; Ways Ahead to Achievable Futures
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