ISBN:
9789048133154
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (250 p)
Series Statement:
International perspectives on early childhood education and development v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version Child Perspectives and Children's Perspectives in Theory and Practice, 2
DDC:
305.231
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book answers the fundamental question of what it is that constitutes a 'child perspective', and how this might differ from the perspectives of children themselves. The answers to such questions have important implications for building progressive and developmental adult-child relationships. However, theoretical and empirical treatments of child perspectives and children's perspectives are very diverse and idiosyncratic, and the standard reference work has yet to be written.Thus, this work is an attempt to fill the gap in the literature by searching for and defining key formulations of pot
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Child or Childrens Perspective?; The Scandinavian Model of Democracy and Welfare; A New Research Paradigm; Learning Based on Noticing Differences; Developmental Pedagogy; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives The Scandinavian Context; Introduction; Changes in the Developmental Ecology of Infants and Young Children; Scandinavian Mothers in Employment; School-for-All: A Growing Global PhenomenonDaycare-for-All: A Scandinavian Welfare Right; Conclusion: Changes in Developmental Ecology
Description / Table of Contents:
The Welfare Model and Values Facilitating a Child PerspectiveThe Scandinavian Welfare ModelA Brief Introduction; Children's Health and Well-Being in the Scandinavian Welfare States; The Ethos of Humanization; Children as Citizens and Child-Centredness as a Vital Societal Value; Child Perspectives Without Ideology?; Curricula of Early Childhood Education and Child Perspectives; Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives: Distinctions and Definitions; Part I In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood Sociology and Developmental Psychology; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood SociologyChildhood as a Social Structure; Childrens Interpretive Reproduction; The Study of Real Children and the Experience of Being a Child; The Ethnographic, Interpretive Approach of Childhood Sociology as Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives?; Conclusion: Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood Sociologies?; In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in ContextualRelational Developmental Psychology; A Child Perspective in Developmental Psychology?
Description / Table of Contents:
The Child Paradigm in ContextualRelational Developmental PsychologyThe Phenomenology of Contextualism; A Psychological Child Perspective Criteria and Challenges; The Pre-verbal Childs Intersubjective World An Empirical Example; Conclusion and Closing Reflections; Childhood Sociology and ContextualRelational Psychology Common Platforms for a Child Perspective?; Challenges Raised by Childhood Sociology for Developmental Psychology and Vice Versa; First Period: Parallel Processes of Redefining Childhood, Children, and Child
Description / Table of Contents:
Second Period: Integrative Redefinition of Childhood, Children, and ChildChildren as Intentional, Meaning-Making Actors; The Inner Psychological Space of the Self; Perspectives and Future Integrative Potential; Part II A Child Perspective to the Care for Children in Practice: A Humanistic and Interpretative Approach; Introduction; Fundamental Features Embedded in a Humanistic Dialogical Approach to Children; Care as a Sensitive Communicative Process: The Primary Circle of Care; Attunement to the Attunement of the Other; The Component of Dialogic Caring Behaviour
Description / Table of Contents:
Box 1 Examples of child perspective directed caring actions
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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