Supporting Early Childhood Practice Through Difficult Times: Looking Towards a Better Future (Towards an Ethical Praxis in Early Childhood) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032748419 ISBN 13: 9781032748412

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Supporting Early Childhood Practice Through Difficult Times encourages early childhood students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in light of challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory pressures.

The contributions from various scholars and practitioners present a range of theoretical concepts as well as innovative practice examples, inviting deep reflection on your own beliefs and attitudes. They examine and envisage different ways of working with and for young children, their families and communities for a better future. Chapters in this timely book include experts from around the globe examining key issues in early childhood education. The first section questions the increasing digitalisation in nurseries and pre-schools and its impact on staff members, parents and children. The second section focuses on workforce development, management systems and the role of parents in policymaking. The third section showcases innovative pedagogical approaches looking beyond widely accepted early learning goals, assessments and curricula to develop inclusive environments that foster all children’s development and learning. Lastly, the fourth section steps back from day-to-day practice and considers what concern for the environment, social justice and posthumanism means for early childhood education and pedagogy.

This book will be a key resource for early childhood education and care practitioners, graduate students, policymakers and researchers facilitating the step from the here-and-now to revised future practice and policy that will enable all children to flourish.

About this title

About the Author

Ute Ward is a former Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1032748419
• ISBN 13: 9781032748412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Ward Ute