Comparative Early Childhood Education Services: International Perspectives (Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood)

This edited international collection reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) within communities, and challenges traditional approaches to family involvement and partnerships in ECEC. Using a range of theoretical positions, the authors present research-based discussions from five countries which challenge existing ECEC discourses of child-centeredness. In this book teachers and a range of professionals working with children together with researchers explore pedagogy in ECEC as sites for building socially just, inclusive, democratic communities which enhance families' sense of belonging, connectedness, resilience and identity. "This edited collection reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education within communities. Contributors present a shift in the lens of the teachers and management within early childhood services to incorporate new ways of working with, alongside, and in collaboration with family, whanau (a Maori term referring to an extended family), and the wider community. "--. "This edited international collection reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) within communities, and challenges traditional approaches to family involvement and partnerships in ECEC. Using a range of theoretical positions, the authors present research-based discussions from five countries which challenge existing ECEC discourses of child-centeredness. In this book teachers and a range of professionals working with children together with researchers explore pedagogy in ECEC as sites for building socially just, inclusive, democratic communities which enhance families' sense of belonging, connectedness, resilience and identity" Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi Early Childhood Education Services: The Heart and Hearth of Communities; International Perspectives....Pages 1-12 Mapping Parents’ Movements and Interaction: Reconceptualizing Parent Support....Pages 13-31 Theorizing Integrated Service Provision in Australia: Policies, Philosophies, Practices....Pages 33-55 Building Strengths in Families and Communities....Pages 57-77 Building Communities: Begins in the Early Years....Pages 79-100 Family and Community Perspectives: Voices from a Qualitative Statewide Study in the Southwest United States....Pages 101-123 Beyond Heteronormativity: Hospitality as Curriculum....Pages 125-145 Creating Community through Connections in SPACE....Pages 147-169 Disturbing Cultures of Incarceration: The Struggle for Normality and the Imprisoned Family....Pages 171-186 Collaborative Play as New Methodology: Co-constructing Knowledge of Early Child Development in the CHILD Project in British Columbia, Canada....Pages 187-212 Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Early Education; Crossing Borders to Build Community....Pages 213-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-240 "This edited collection reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education within communities. Contributors present a shift in the lens of the teachers and management within early childhood services to incorporate new ways of working with, alongside, and in collaboration with family, whanau (a Maori term referring to an extended family), and the wider community."-- Provided by publisher