1st Edition
Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum Educational Imperatives for the Future
By Jane Page
Copyright 2000
146 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pre-school children have fundamentally different attitudes towards the future and attendant notions of time and space. For this reason, early childhood professionals are optimally placed to lay important foundations for young children's long term development. Children's flexibility of thought, their positive and constructive outlook on life, their sense of the continuity of time, their creativity... Read more
1. Children's Rights and Adult's Responsibilities: Reinterpreting Educational Ethics 2. Four and Five Year Old Children's Understanding of Time and Future 3. Futures Studies: A Catalyst for Social and Educational Change 4. Futures Studies and Education 5. Futures Studies and Early Childhood Education 6. Applying Futures Concerns to the Early Childhood Curriculum 7. Applying Futures Values to the Early Childhood Curriculum 8. Early Childhood Professionals as Agents of Change
Biography
Jane Page is a lecturer in early childhood studies at the Department of Learning and Educational Development in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
'A seminal work that highlights a hitherto neglected area of educational research.' - Futures
'Page's work not only makes an original contribution to early childhood curriculum theorisation; she is the first author in futures education to make a significant early childhood curriculum contribution to that body of literature. I commend this publication. It provides another way of giving voice to children and instilling a sense of agency.' - Marilyn Fleer, AJEC
