Overview
- Illustrates important concepts of democracy through the lived experience of children
- Questions cultural assumptions around democracy through critical reflection on research and practice from five continents
- Addresses contemporary global challenges such as migration, inclusion and sustainability
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 28)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Democracy in Early Childhood Curriculum and Policy
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Espoused and Enacted EC Pedagogical Practice
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Childrens’s Democratic Arenas
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Keywords
- childhood citizenship
- diverse, democratic and pluralistic perspectives on ECE
- parent-teacher communication
- ethics and democracy in child research
- comradeship and friendship of migrant children
- toddler mathematics
- negotiating inclusion into social groups in early childhood
- bilingual communicative events
- humanities as lived childhood experience
- global connectedness and child engagement with ICT in ECE
- challenging curriculum discourse and rights
- lived experiences of gifted children and families
- intercultural citizenship and mobility of young children
- multilingual skills and cultural exchanges of young children
- community codes, religious and cultural meeting places
- child competence and confidence
- inclusion, participation,and agency
- globally changing cultural contexts
- children's rights
- mind and body reciprocity
About this book
It offers readers insights into what democracy and citizenship look like in lived experience, and the issues affecting practice and encouraging reflection and advocacy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Annica Löfdahl Hultman qualified as a preschool teacher in Sweden and is currently working in teacher education at Karlstad University. She is also a member of the education committee at the Swedish Research Council. Löfdahl Hultman has, for many years, been engaged in research ethics and is currently the chair of the local ethical committee at KAU. She has published books and articles in Swedish and English on democracy in ECE; children’s peer cultures, play and studies within the field of education policy; and the teaching profession in general and specifically in early childhood education. She is currently engaged in studies on preschool teacher education and on policy changes in early childhood education. Professor Löfdahl Hultman is the Scientific Leader of the Centre for Child & Childhood Studies in Education at Karlstad University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenging Democracy in Early Childhood Education
Book Subtitle: Engagement in Changing Global Contexts
Editors: Valerie Margrain, Annica Löfdahl Hultman
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7771-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7770-9Published: 24 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7773-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7771-6Published: 15 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 274
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Developmental Psychology, International and Comparative Education