Reconfiguring the natures of childhood [electronic resource] / Affrica Taylor.
2013
LB1139.23 .T38 2013
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Title
Reconfiguring the natures of childhood [electronic resource] / Affrica Taylor.
Author
Taylor, Affrica.
ISBN
9780415687713
9780415687720
9780203582046 (electronic book)
9780415687720
9780203582046 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 147 p.
Call Number
LB1139.23 .T38 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
372.21
Summary
"In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as:messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space.Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contesting early childhood.
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The seduction of nature
pt. 2. Reconfiguring the natures of childhood.
pt. 2. Reconfiguring the natures of childhood.