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Ethics and politics in early childhood education / Gunilla Dahlberg and Peter Moss.

By: Dahlberg, Gunilla, 1945-.
Contributor(s): Moss, Peter, 1945-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contesting early childhood: Publisher: New York : RoutledgeFalmer, c2005Description: viii, 208 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780415280426.Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Political aspects | Early childhood education -- Italy -- Reggio EmiliaDDC classification: 372.21
Contents:
Opening narrative -- Technology as first practice -- What ethics? -- Preschools as a loci of ethical practice -- Towards a pedagogy of listening -- Major and minor politics -- The preschool as a site for democratic politics -- In search of Utopia.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the 'Reggio approach', and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for what is best for the child.

Extending and developing the ideas raised in Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education the successful team of authors make a wide range of complex material accessible to readers who may have little knowledge of the various important and relevant areas within philosophy, ethics, or politics, covering subjects such as:

post-structural thinkers and their perspectives the history and practice of early childhood work in Reggio Emilia globalization, technological change, poverty, and environmental degradation ethical and political perspectives relevant to early childhood services from Foucault and Deleuze, to Beck, Bauman and Rose.

This book presents essential ideas, theories and debates to an international audience. Those who would find this particularly useful are practitioners, trainers, students, researchers, policymakers and anyone with an interest in early childhood education.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.

Opening narrative -- Technology as first practice -- What ethics? -- Preschools as a loci of ethical practice -- Towards a pedagogy of listening -- Major and minor politics -- The preschool as a site for democratic politics -- In search of Utopia.

CIT Module EDUC 8031 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Opening Narrative
  • 2 Technology as First Practice
  • 3 What Ethics?
  • 4 Preschools as a Loci of Ethical Practice
  • 5 Towards a Pedagogy of Listening
  • 6 Major and Minor Politics
  • 7 The Preschool as a Site for Democratic Politics
  • 8 In Search of Utopia

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Moss is Professor in Early Childhood Provision at the Institute of Education, University of London.Gunilla Dahlberg is Professor at Stockholm Institute of Education. She is the leading exponent of the application of post-structural theory to the field of early childhood.