Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education

CONTENTS DEDICATION LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES Chapter 1 Against the Tide: New way in Early Childhood Education Nicola Yelland and Anna Kilderry PART I CONTEMPORARY VIEWS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND TEACHING Chapter 2 Reconceptualizing the field of early care and education: If 'western' child development is a problem, then what do we do? Gaile S. Cannella. Chapter 3 Developmental theory and early childhood education: Necessary but not sufficient Daniel J. Walsh. Chapter 4 How 'bad' can it be?: Troubling gender, sexuality and early childhood teaching. Mindy Blaise. Yarrow Andrew. Chapter 5 Preschool children's portrayals of their male teacher: A poststructural analysis. Jennifer Sumsion. Chapter 6 Who Can Speak? Silence, Voice, and Pedagogy Jonathan Silin PART II RETHINKING EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICES Chapter 7 Freedom to choose: Examining children's experience in choice time Sharon Ryan Chapter 8 Learning to be a child: Cultural diversity and Early Years ideology Liz Brooker Chapter 9 Questioning diversity Jeanette Rhedding-Jones Chapter 10 Secret children's business: Resisting and redefining access to learning in the early childhood classroom Sheralyn Campbell Chapter 11 'Civilization and replicas': Disrupting multicultural pretend play props Richard Johnson PART III THE EMERGENCE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND LITERACIES Chapter 12 Digikids: Young children, popular culture and media Jackie Marsh Chapter 13 Literarily Lost: the quest for meaningful literacy agendas in early childhood education Leonie Rowan and Eileen Honan Chapter 14 Curriculum, pedagogies and practice with ICT in the information age Nicola Yelland Chapter 15 Postmodernism, passion and potential for future childhoods Nicola Yelland and Anna Kilderry INDEX