Kindergarten kissing games; four-year-olds playing doctor; a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this book. In response to much-publicised incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school and kindergarten classrooms. The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, gay, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education.
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A Scholarly Collection for Thoughtful Readers,
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This is a collection of articles by some leading theorists working in early childhood education and childhood cultural studies. Contributors consider and challenge discourses of early childhood education that have normalized particular perspectives on the good child and good teacher of early childhood. For those who think that the lives of young children and their teachers are a bit more complicated than the world of Barney, this is a thought-provoking, important read.
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Children are not guinea pigs,
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It is completely shocking to me that the contributors think that their views are relevant or worthy of experimentation on young impressionable children. They have the air of suggestion that those that don't support their way-liberal social experiment are mean spirited and somehow suppressing sexual expression in young children!!?? Delusional- that's what I think of their ideas!!
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- Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine on page 182, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia by Claudia Mitchell on page 157, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature (Children's Literature and Culture) by Carolyn Daniel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shaping Early Childhood by Glenda Mac Naughton on page 319, and Back Matter
- Consuming Children: Education-Entertainment-Advertising by Jane Kenway in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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