Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum

Page, Jane

ISBN 10: 0415191173 / ISBN 13: 9780415191173

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2000

About this Item

Argues that pre-school children have a less apprehensive view of the future than adolescents and that an effective programme in the early years can counteract the difficulties youths experience. Num Pages: 148 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNKC; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2000. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415191173
• ISBN 13: 9780415191173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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 and imagination, and their sense of personal connection with time and the future, are all qualities that should be recognized and addressed in early childhood educational programmes as a means of counteracting the difficulty youths experience in knowing what to expect in their future lives and coming to understand their roles in shaping them.
Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum offers fresh insight into:
* examining futurists' and early childhood theorists' thinking of the relevance of planning for children's long term needs in early childhood
* identifying the skills, attitudes and outlooks required to assist young children attending early childhood programmes in their long term growth and development
* exploring the means through which these skills, attitudes and outlooks can be achieved in curriculum frameworks through specific goals and learning experiences against the background of youth and young children's views of the future.

About the Author

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.