Developmentalism in early childhood and middle grades education: critical conversations on readiness and responsiveness

In this book, the contributors challenge dominant discourses and practices inthe fields of early childhood and middle grades education that are based on the last century's grand developmental theories. INDICE: General Introduction: Developmentalism and the Need for Critical Conversations Within and Across the Fields; K.Lee & M.D.Vagle - PART I: ARE THEY READY YET?; K.Lee - What's More Important: Numbers or Shoes?: Readiness, Curriculum and Nonsense in a Rural Preschool; A.N.Parks & S.Bridges-Rhoads - Who is Normal? Who is Abnormal?: Rethinking Child Development from a Cultural Psychological Perspective; K.Lee - Being Present in the Middle School Years; H.G.Conklin - Am I a Novice Teacher?: The Voices of Induction Teachers in a Preschool; S.K.Park & A.N.Parks - Responsivity Rather than Readiness; E.Graue - PART II: RESPONSIVE TO WHAT?; M.D.Vagle - Pursuing an Answerable Education for Young Adolescents; M.D.Vagle - Black Adolescent Identity, Double-Consciousness, and a Socio-Historically Constructed Adolescence; L.Harrison - Fourteen is the New Thirty: Adolescent Girls, their Bodies, and Sexuality; H.E.Hughes - The SMART Board as an Adolescent Classroom Technology; S.Bridges-Rhoads - PART II RESPONSE; E.R.Brown - PART III: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS FIELDS; K.Lee & M.D.Vagle - A Schismatic Family and a Gated Community?; M.D.Vagle & A.Parks - Walking the Borderland; K.Lee & H.Conklin

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61980-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés