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Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : languages of evaluation / Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss and Alan Pence.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 2007Edition: 2. edDescription: xxvi, 206 s. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415418485
  • 0415418488
  • 9780415418492
  • 0415418496
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.21 22
Other classification:
  • Eab.01
  • Em
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Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 372.21 Dahlberg Available 11156000165857
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Taking a broad approach, this second edition of Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Carerelates 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.

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.

Previous ed.: London: Falmer, 1999