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Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

April 6, 2013 | Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780415687720
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Description

In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.

Through adopting a common worlds framework,Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhoodgenerates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as:

  • messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent;
  • situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal;
  • entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space.

Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers.

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About this Author

Affrica Tayloris Associate Professor of Education, University of Canberra, Australia.

ISBN: 9780415687720
Format: Trade Paperback
Series: Contesting Early Childhood
Pages: 176
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-04-06

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