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

"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...

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Main Authors: Dahlberg, Gunilla, 1945- (Author), Moss, Peter, 1945- (Author), Pence, Alan R., 1948- (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Edition:Classic edition.
Series:Routledge education classic edition series.
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (249 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index.
ISBN:0203371119
9780203371114
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