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Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : languages of evaluation / Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss and Alan Pence.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2013Edition: Third editionDescription: xxxii, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415819046 (hardback)
  • 9780415820226 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB1139.23 .D11
Other classification:
  • EDU000000 | EDU010000
Summary: "Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia. Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement. With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books SMHS Library General Stacks LB 1139.25 D11 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SMHS-0219040367
Books Books SMHS Library General Stacks LB1139.25 D12 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SMHS-0219048368

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index.

"Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia. Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement. With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

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