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This exciting new book celebrates, interrogates and re-imagines the complex and demanding role of the Early Childhood Practitioner. Exploring the many different facets of the ECP role, it challenges normative constructions of practitioners and how they have been shaped by assumptions of history, culture and policy.
List of contents
Introduction
1. The Emergence of the Early Childhood Practitioner
2. Holding and Keeping the Child Safe
3. Developing Parent Partnerships
4. Appreciating and Practicing Empathy
5. Valuing Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability
6. Re-imagining Early Childhood Pedagogy
7. Nurturing Nature with(in) Children (or 'George Killed the Worm')
8. Embracing Creativity in the Early Years
9. Championing a Not Knowing Pedagogy and Practice
10. Reconceptualising Quality Interactions
11. Recognising and Surviving Poverty within Early Childhood Practice
Conclusion
About the author
Dr Carla Solvason is Senior Lecturer in the Department for Children and Families at the University of Worcester. She has a keen interest in ethical practice and respectful and sensitive approaches to research, areas in which she has published and presented widely.
Dr Rebecca Webb is Senior Lecturer in Early Years and Primary Education and a member of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, at the University of Sussex. Her research interests focus on pedagogies and practices of ‘not knowing’ and ‘uncertainty’.
Summary
This exciting new book celebrates, interrogates and re-imagines the complex and demanding role of the Early Childhood Practitioner. Exploring the many different facets of the ECP role, it challenges normative constructions of practitioners and how they have been shaped by assumptions of history, culture and policy.
