Overview
- Paints a vivid picture of the meanings and spaces of young children’s self-determination
- Offers intelligent and innovative discussions around policies, practices and discourses
- Presents a unique collection of case-studies from 14 nations, 10 languages and 5 continents
- Is written in a language accessible to scholars, researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 25)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Practices
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Front Matter
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Discourses
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- self-determination of the child / children’s voices
- Dialogic teaching
- video-observation/ voice of the child
- Play based learning/ child-centered pedagogies
- Hybrid-transition/ digital learning
- Relationship centred education / primary schools
- play-based education / community nursery
- families / self-determination
- African Childhoods/ Community-based education
- special education needs/ Zika epidemic
- Children’s right legislation
- Fundamental British Values Education
- Young children’s participation in Chinese education
- Trust in education / children’s rights semantics
About this book
This book investigates the position of young children’s self-determination within a range of social contexts, such as education, social care, mass-media, health, politics, law and the family. It brings to the fore the voices of the children in the present, with their interests, agendas and rights. Based on original primary research, the chapters tackle hegemonic discourses on children’s self-determination as well as current policies and practices. They address a broad range of topics, from the planning of role-play to national policies, from the use of digital technologies for pedagogy to children’s health and well-being, and from democratic practices in the classroom to the preservation of traditional family values. The book presents case studies to unravel how childhood and young children’s self-determination are constructed at the intersection with intergenerational relationships. Coming from different disciplines and using a diverse range of methodological traditions, the contributions in the volume eventually converge to generate a rich, complex and multi-layered analysis of contemporary cultures of childhood and young children’s rights.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services
Book Subtitle: Discourses, Policies and Practices
Editors: Federico Farini, Angela Scollan
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14556-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14555-2Published: 06 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14558-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14556-9Published: 26 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Cross Cultural Psychology