Making a place for pleasure in early childhood education

The Resource Making a place for pleasure in early childhood education

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Making a place for pleasure in early childhood education

Statement of responsibility

edited by Joseph Tobin

Language

eng

Summary

Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher-education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms
The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

372.21

Index

index present

LC call number

LB1139.25

LC item number

.M36 1997eb

Literary form

non fiction

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