1st Edition

Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education

By Alison Clark Copyright 2023
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to... Read more

Foreword by Michel Vandenbroeck

Preface

Acknowledgement

Part One: Reasons to be slow

1. Accelerated childhood

2. Clock time

3. Play time

4. Slow pedagogies and slow knowledge

    Part Two: Slow pedagogies and slow practices: what does slow look like in early childhood education?

5. Slow practices in place

6. Slow practices and materials

7.Slow practices and pedagogical documentation

8. Slow practices and the everyday

9. Slow practices and stories

10. Slow listening in research and practice

    Part Three: Moving forward

11. Time for a rethink

Appendix

References

Index

Biography

Alison Clark is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.