Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : languages of evaluation / Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss and Alan Pence.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2013.Edition: Third EditionDescription: xxxii, 214 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781138385078
- LB1139.23 .D25 2013
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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"--
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