Comparative Early Childhood Education Services

International Perspectives

By: Judith Duncan (Editor), Sarah Te One (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This edited international collection re-conceptualizes the place of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) within communities and challenges traditional approaches to family involvement and partnerships in ECEC. Using a range of theoretical positions, the authors present research-based discussions from five countries which challenge existing ECEC discourses of child-centeredness. In this book teachers, a range of professionals working with children, and researchers explore pedagogy in ECEC as sites for building socially just, inclusive, democratic communities that enhance families' sense of belonging, connectedness, resilience, and identity.

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"This book challenges an image of early childhood services that has come to dominate much of the international literature. That challenge is both welcome and necessary." - Alan Pence, UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care, and Development; Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria; Director, Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU)

"Te One and Duncan's pedigree in kindergarten teaching, political advocacy, community development, research, and early childhood teacher education provides an impeccable background for inspiring a similar group of activist writers to question, challenge, critique, and trouble our beliefs, our policies, and our practices that currently form the pedagogies of early childhood education centres (ECEC) in the early twenty-first century. During the twentieth century early childhood education moved beyond its radical experiments into the mainstream of education provision by the state. But there are some troubling aspects of this shift. Te One and Duncan, editors of this volume, provide a case for a radical re-conceptualizing and rethinking of the place and role of ECEC in our society." - Helen May, professor, College of Education, University of Otago

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Non-Fiction Education Schools & Pre-Schools Pre-School & Kindergarten Sociology & Anthropology Philosophy & Theory of Education

List of Figures and Table	p. vii
Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Contributing Authors	p. xxv
Early Childhood Education Services: The Heart and Hearth of Communities; International Perspectives	p. 1
Mapping Parents' Movements and Interaction: Reconceptualizing Parent Support	p. 13
Theorizing Integrated Service Provision in Australia: Policies, Philosophies, Practices	p. 33
Building Strengths in Families and Communities	p. 57
Building Communities: Begins in the Early Years	p. 79
Family and Community Perspectives: Voices from a Qualitative Statewide Study in the Southwest United States	p. 101
Beyond Heteronormativity: Hospitality as Curriculum	p. 125
Creating Community through Connections in SPACE	p. 147
Disturbing Cultures of Incarceration: The Struggle for Normality and the Imprisoned Family	p. 171
Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada	p. 187
Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Early Education; Crossing Borders to Build Community	p. 213
Index	p. 225
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