Early Childhood Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22598-9
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

“A celebration of the tremendous strides made towards the achievement of a multiprofessional early years workforce, and a challenge to those responsible for training the next generation of professionals… Students and trainers, policy makers and practitioners have a duty to be knowledgeable, to be able to reflect on their beliefs and practice and to articulate concerns, share their views, convey their enthusiasm and act as advocates for young children. This book will help them do just that.”

Lesley Abbott OBE, Mancester Metropolitan University

Early Childhood Studies critically engages the reader in issues that relate to young children and their lives from a multiprofessional perspective. Whilst offering a theoretically rigorous treatment of issues relating to early childhood studies, the book also provides practical discussion of strategies that could inform multiprofessional practice. It draws upon case studies to help the reader make practical sense of theoretical ideas and develop a critical and reflective attitude. Hard and pressing questions are asked so that beliefs, ideas, views and assumptions about notions of the child and childhood are constantly critiqued and reframed for the post-modern world.

The first part of the book explores the early years, power and politics by looking at child rights, the politics of play, families, and working with parents and carers. The second part explores facts and fantasies about childhood experiences, such as anti-discriminatory practice, the law, child protection, and health issues. The final section encourages the reader to explore what childhood means from historical, ideological and cultural perspectives, and looks at how popular assumptions arise.

This is a key critical text for early childhood students, academics and researchers, as well as practitioners who want to develop their reflective practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Liz

Holmes, Rachel

Powell, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Foreword

Lesley Abbott OBE

Preface and Acknowledgements

Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes and John Powell

Introduction

Liz Jones and Ian Barron

Part 1: Power, Politics and Childhood

1 Researching young children within a

multiprofessional perspective

Liz Jones, Karen Browne, Iris Keating

2 Exploring tensions within the interplay of rights, duties and responsibilities

Rachel Holmes

3 The politics of play

Liz Jones, Elaine Hodson and Nell Napier

4 Exploring families

Sue Aitken and Liz Jones

5 Working with parents and carers

Liz Jones, Karen Browne, Sue Aitken,Iris Keating and Elaine Hodson

Part 2: Working Together: Facts, Frameworks and Fantasies

6 MultiProfessional perspectives

John Powell

7 Anti-discriminatory practice
Russell Jones

8 Legal issues

Catherine Baxter

9 Child protection

John Powell

10 Integration, inclusion and diversity

Rosemary Boys

11 Health in childhood

Caroline Bradbury-Jones and Jane Bates

Part 3: Children’s Childhoods

12 Exploring representations of children and childhood in history and film: Silencing a voice that is already blue in the face from shouting

Rachel Holmes and Ian Barron

13 Exploring representations of children and childhood in photography and documentary: Visualizing the silence

Rachel Holmes

14 International perspectives

Sue Aitken and John Powell

15 Understanding development

Ian Barron

16 Concluding remarks

Liz Jones, Ian Barron, John Powell and Rachel Holmes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liz Jones is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her recent publications include Action Researcg and Post-Modernism: Congruence and Critique (Open University Press, 2002).

Rachel Holmes is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was a member of the project team that developed Birth to Three Matters: A Frameword to Support Children in their Earliest Years.

John Powell is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Multiprofessional coordinator at Manchester Metropolitan University. Prior to this his career in social work spanned more than 20 years, providing him with a rich set of experiences of direct work with families and young children.