Local Childhoods in Global Times / edited by Anette Hellman and Susanne Garvis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hellman, Anette, editor.

Garvis, Susanne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children Social conditions.

Education and globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Youth--Social conditions.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect, [2022]

Summary:

Presents perspectives of childhood from around the world. Each chapter presents a different focus on early childhood showing the diversity and complexity across multiple countries. Issues emerge around multi-language development, nationalism and multiculturalism and cultural theories of every-day life. 30 b&w illus.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Local Childhoods in Global Times

Copyright Page

Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Historic overview/policy documents

Childhoods in ECE

Language and nationalism

Childhoods and civic society

Conclusion

References

1 Globalization and Child Education: Research in Early Childhood Education Through Five Decades

The International Journal of Early Childhood (IJEC)

A global childhood

Themes of globalization and early childhood education

IJEC: A history of transition

Children's needs and rights

Children's health and social welfare

Child development and learning

Language and literacy

Children's play

Early childhood programmes and curricula

Policy and quality issues in a globalized world

Nature and sustainability

Appendix: IJEC - Recent history

Acknowledgement

Note

2 Transitioning Into Formal Education: One on the Journey to Achieve SDG 4

Policy framing

Pre-primary education

Transition

Transition to pre-primary settings

Transition to primary

Importance of social networks through transition

Methodology

Setting

The journey

Transition practices

Transitioning a child into schooling: A parent's reflection

Diary entries

Discussion

3 Raising Children's Sustainability Consciousness

The study

Background to ESD

Learning for and about ESD in ECE

ESD learning in Sweden

Theory, methodology and methods

Play-based learning: The ESD programme

Findings and discussion

Prior knowledge

Play-based learning of ESD

Knowingness about ESD concepts

Attitude towards ESD concepts

Behaviour about ESD concepts

The company game

Facilitators to ESD learning in ECE.

Limitations to ESD learning

4 The Good Childhood in the Nordic Countries: Insider and Outsider Perspectives

Nordic childhoods

Field notes with outsider and insider commentaries

Commentary

Development of Nordic preschools

Emergence of national curricula

Contemporary issues, challenges and changes

Questions about the ideal itself

Unintended effect of preschool as a priority on the global agenda

Heightened emphasis on learning

The role of play

Incorporation of abstract themes

Preschool quality disparities within and among the Nordic countries as an ethical concern

Belonging and inclusion

5 Children Taking Their Place in the Institutional Practice Through Their Photographic Voice

Contextualization and previous research

Language, voice and belonging

Photography as method in childhood research

Framework and analytical concepts

The two studies and the methodological work

Well-known place and the capacity of space

Nursery table

My spot

Who is the onlooker, who is being looked at?

Concluding remarks

Notes

6 Children Doing and Undoing Gender during the Circle-Time: Stories From a Kindergarten in Indonesia

A brief summary of gender construction in Indonesia

Methodology: Introducing Kopo kindergarten

Understanding circle-time setting

Results

Princess and superhero discourses

Gender discourse and children's toys

Gendering children's bodies

7 'I Have Always Been Speaking Finnish With My Children': Supporting Children's Heritage Language

Previous research on heritage language maintenance

Policy and societal orientations towards language

Data and method

Results.

How do parents support the development of their child's heritage language?

Contacts with heritage language environment in Finland

Contacts with heritage language in the living community

Using multiple language resources

What type of challenges do parents face in maintaining the heritage language?

The view of others

Received information versus misinformation

Isolation

Child refusing to speak Finnish

8 Becoming a Respectable Future Citizen: Norms on Ideal Bodies, Food and Eating Among Children in Indonesian, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care

Key concepts

National contexts: Indonesia, Japan and Sweden

Preschool meals in the three national contexts

The meal

Learning to eat and drink in the right place

Learning to eat and drink at the right time

Right way to behave at mealtimes

9 Teaching Language Learners in the Science Classroom: A Case Study in a Norwegian Secondary School

Building students' scientific literacy skills

Instructional practices in the science classroom

Data

Methods

Ethical and legal considerations

Findings

Metacognitive practices

Cognitive practices

Social/affective practices

Discussion and conclusion

10 Everyday Life, National Crises and the Practice of Global Childhoods

Introduction: Reading global childhood imaginaries in times of national crisis

Tactics and practices of space in a time of national crisis

Reading childhood in times of environmental crises

Concluding thoughts

11 Teachers' Understanding of Children's Needs in the Time of Coronavirus: Norms on Children Among Finnish and Swedish ECEC Teachers

Children and crises.

The coronavirus outbreak in Finland and Sweden

Theoretical framework

Method, settings and participants

Methods for analysis and interpretation

Ethical aspects

Credibility and reliability

Norms on children as competent

Norms on children in need

Teachers' strategies to meet children's competences and needs

Epilogue: Some Concluding Thoughts

Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789386097

1789386098

9781789386080

178938608X