Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
Regular price
€25.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Category=JNLA
Category=JNLB
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780300183009
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these—spontaneous and pleasurable—are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms.
The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education.
The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education.
Joseph J. Tobin is associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is coauthor of Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States and editor/contributor to Remade in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society, both published by Yale University Press.
