1st Edition

Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

By Peter Moss Copyright 2019
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics. Peter Moss draws on material published in the groundbreaking Contesting Early Childhood... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter one: Dominant discourses, alternative narratives and resistance movements

Chapter two: The importance of paradigm

Chapter three: Politics and ethics as first practice

Chapter four: Reggio Emilia: a story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality

Chapter five: Michel Foucault: power, knowledge and truth

Chapter six: Gilles Deleuze: though, movement and (more) experimentation

Chapter seven: Posthumanism, the posthuman child and intra-active pedagogy

Chapter eight: What next?

References

Biography

Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.