Reconfiguring the natures of childhood / Affrica Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Affrica, author.

Series:

Contesting early childhood.

Contesting early childhood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Philosophy.

Early childhood education.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as:messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space.Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

pt. 1. The seduction of nature

pt. 2. Reconfiguring the natures of childhood.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-67217-6

0-429-23438-4

0-203-58204-7

1-299-27865-5

1-136-67210-9

9780429234385

OCLC:

830161486