Too Much, Too Soon?
Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood
$56.76
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2011
Summary
How to nurture young children’s well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children’s lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, ‘adultification’, and the government’s ‘nappy curriculum’ which ‘schoolifies’ them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the ‘right learning a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781907359026 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1907359028 |
| Author: | Richard House |
| Publisher: | Hawthorn Press |
| Imprint: | Hawthorn Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 694g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Early Years |
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“The world of childhood is seldom represented in the educational bureaus of national governments. Governmental schools do not have the goal of fostering the authentic inner lives of our children. Instead, they focus on turning out productive and obedient citizens armed with the skills needed to take their places in the market-place. It may be that someday the pleas of those who truly understand the lives of children will be heeded by such national governments! This collection of distinguished essays addressing the need to care for the inner lives of our young might possibly help to being about such a change - but the adamancy of governments is notorious, so one can but hope!”
–Mary Leue, Founder and Director of The Free School, Albany, New YorkAbout The Author
Richard House
Richard House, Ph.D. lectures at the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of Roehampton.
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