Gunilla Dahlberg - Böcker

The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for what is best for the child.Extending and developing the ideas raised in Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education the successful team of authors make a wide range of complex material accessible to readers who may have little knowledge of the various important and relevant areas within philosophy, ethics, or politics, covering subjects such as:post-structural thinkers and their perspectivesthe history and practice of early childhood work in Reggio Emiliaglobalization, technological change, poverty, and environmental degradationethical and political perspectives relevant to early childhood services from Foucault and Deleuze, to Beck, Bauman and Rose.This book presents essential ideas, theories and debates to an international audience. Those who would find this particularly useful are practitioners, trainers, students, researchers, policymakers and anyone with an interest in early childhood education.

The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for what is best for the child.Extending and developing the ideas raised in Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Care and Education the successful team of authors make a wide range of complex material accessible to readers who may have little knowledge of the various important and relevant areas within philosophy, ethics, or politics, covering subjects such as:post-structural thinkers and their perspectivesthe history and practice of early childhood work in Reggio Emiliaglobalization, technological change, poverty, and environmental degradationethical and political perspectives relevant to early childhood services from Foucault and Deleuze, to Beck, Bauman and Rose.This book presents essential ideas, theories and debates to an international audience. Those who would find this particularly useful are practitioners, trainers, students, researchers, policymakers and anyone with an interest in early childhood education.

Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia.Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement.With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions.

Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia.Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement.With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the 'discourse of quality' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions.

The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century. Their essays consider what techniques and technologies are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is culturally specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.

The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century. Their essays consider what techniques and technologies are used to govern the child, what role the family plays, what is global and what is culturally specific in the changes, and how the subject is constructed and construed.

Denna bok problematiserar försöken att definiera och mäta "kvalitet" inom förskolan och därmed reducera närmast filosofiska värdefrågor till rent tekniska och administrativa problem. Författarna hävdar att det finns andra sätt att förstå och utvärdera förskolans pedagogiska arbete – liksom att förstå såväl barndomen som innehållet i förskolans verksamhet. Bokens praktikexempel är hämtade från bl.a. Reggio Emilia och Stockholmsprojektets förskolor.

Författarnas alternativa perspektiv är genomgående socialkonstruktionistiskt och postmodernistiskt, vilket innebär att framställningen i boken har giltighet långt utanför förskolan. Faktiskt kan alla som arbetar i och med såväl skola som förskola – eller arbetar med forskning, administration eller politiska uppdrag inom motsvarande områden – ha glädje och nytta av bokens analyser.

Dessutom innehåller boken litteratur från hela världen, vilket innebär att den utgör en utförlig presentation av denna just nu pågående kunskapsteoretiska och sociohistoriska "synvända".

Sagt om boken”...författarna för viktiga och mycket intressanta resonemang om dagens barndom och barnomsorg, då de ifrågasätter givna sanningar och synsätt. Eftersom boken är skriven på engelska, finns det anledning att översätta den till svenska” Gunilla Lindqvist, universitetslektor, Pedagogiska Magasinet, Stockholm, nr 1/00.

Om författarnaGunilla Dahlberg är professor i pedagogik vid Lärarhögskolan i Stockholm.Peter Moss är professor i Early Childhood Provision vid Institute of Education, University of London. Alan Pence är professor vid the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Kanada.