Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education - A Story of Democracy, Experimentation and Potentiality

"Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue among national governments and international organisations, promising high returns on social investment. Policy discussions are dominated by one model of provision, infused by neoliberal thinking, which constructs a formula of 'high quality', standardised goals and competition. This ground-breaking new book explores an alternative: an early childhood education and care with democracy and experimentation as fundamental values, providing a public space for citizens, young and adult, to encounter and create many projects, creating a collective workshop of many possibilities"--

Sommario

1. The dictatorship of no alternative: the emergent global model of early childhood education  2. Democratic experimentalism: values and practices  3. Sustaining democratic experimentalism  4. The turn to democratic experimentation: why now?

Relazione

'If you read this with an open mind, the hope, wonder and realisation that it could actually be achieved creeps in and makes your heart beat a little faster with the excitement and hope in it!' - Early Years Educator Magazine

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Moss, Peter (Institute of Education Moss, Peter/ Urban Moss
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415656016
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65601-6
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Contesting Early Childhood; Contesting Early Childhood
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia infantile e prescolare; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Educational strategies and policy