Overview
- Challenges professionals and researchers to reflect on and recognize values and value conflicts
- Offers new theoretical and methodological knowledge, including on the challenges and difficulties encountered in this field
- Provokes new ways of thinking and adds new knowledge of lived values in early childhood settings
- Combines high-quality scientific research with life-tasting insights into early childhood education at a grass root level
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 23)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory and Concepts
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Front Matter
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Methodological Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Empirical Perspectives
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Keywords
- theoretical and conceptual approaches on values education
- ontology and epistomology
- communicative approaches and dialogically organised classroom
- participatory action research in preschools
- methodological and ethical challenges
- values in Nordic preschools
- caring and democratic values
- planned pedagogical activities
- values expressed between educators and children
- ethnically diverse preschool groups
- politics of belonging
- Finnish preschools
- active citizenship
- children communucating values using their index finger
- efficiency in educators' talk about dilemmas
- values of care, democracy discipline, efficiency
- future values education
- pedagogical practice on values
- holistic perspective on values education
About this book
This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives. It explores issues such as the kinds of values that are communicated between educators and children and the kind of future citizens we foster in early childhood settings. It illustrates by way of cases involving many participants, including children, educators, and researchers, who have their roots in diverse contexts, and reside in different parts of the world, including Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, and Sweden. The book carefully considers the contextualized character of the cases presented, yet argues that the questions, theories, and methodologies emphasized do inform the international debate in manifold ways.
Communication of values in a broad and diverse sense is central in any pedagogy, especially for the youngest children in the educational system. Still, values education has been neglected as aresearch field, in education in general and particularly in the early years. This book addresses this lack of knowledge by scrutinizing various questions about values education in ECEC settings.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Values Education in Early Childhood Settings
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Approaches and Practices
Editors: Eva Johansson, Anette Emilson, Anna-Maija Puroila
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75559-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75558-8Published: 18 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09264-1Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75559-5Published: 07 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education