Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Early Childhood
By exploring the key issues, arguments and messages that exist in the field, this book provides an international, comparative look at aspects of early childhood education and care. Pedagogical practices, learning cultures and the professional development of practitioners are considered within the wider political agenda of different countries. Pertinent policy and practice issues, such as numeracy and literacy, are carefully examined. The text highlights how important it is to engage with and listen to children, to provide positive learning encounters.
Divided into four parts, the book covers:
- Children's Learning Cultures
- Culture of Pedagogy
- Cultural Perspectives on Curriculum
- Cultures of Professional Development
Chapters cover key topics such as:
- Multi-sensory learning
- Outdoor learning
- Children's voice
- Children as mentors
- Literacy and mathematics
With expert contributors drawn from across the world, this book is vital reading for all those studying comparative education on early years courses.
As culture is an issue in many areas including child care this book enables you to look at different issues and understanding why cultures behave the way they do. Interesting book.
Useful diagrams and pictures of children's work. A variety of topics addressed that are new and refreshing.
An interesting range of issues and emerging theoretical applications in contemporary and cross-cultural practice.
The book as a whole reminds us of the inter- dependence of global citizenship and futures for all our children to be educated in respectful learning environments for holistic development.
One of several similar texts which is useful for providing students with choice of their background reader.
This book became the key text for my Foundation Degree students studying a module on the international perspectives on early years education.
A useful text for expereienced practitioners who are able to engage well with independent study. This book looks very widely at early years appraoches beyond the typical and provides comparisons which are helpful in developing critical thinking about the impact of culture and time on how early years approaches have developed in different countries.
Presenting alternatives to the UK a chance to explore different curricula and pedagogical imperatives.
Excellent text that has a range of relevant, interesting and thought provoking chapters for anyone studying a Masters.
This is an excellent book which attempts o address a number of hitherto unexplored areas in early years academic writing. Essential reading for levels 4-6 on our BA (Hons) degree.
This book gives some very interesting perspectives not always considered. Focus is brought very much back to the child with all theories coming from there written in an approachable way palatable for student audiences.
