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Too Much, Too Soon?

作者

Richard House, Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer at the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of Roehampton, London. He is a Steiner kindergarten educator and founder/member of the Open EYE campaign. With Sue Palmer, he orchestrated the two Daily Telegraph Open Letters on "toxic" childhood (2006) and play (2007). He writes extensively on childcare, education, and psychotherapeutic issues. Dr. House is the author of numerous articles and several books on psychotherapy and education

出版社

Hawthorn Press, Early Years Series

英文說明

Too Much, Too Soon? tackles the burning question of how to reverse the erosion of childhood by nurturing young children wellbeing and learning capacity. Children lives have been speeded up by commercialization, adultification, and government programs such as No Child Left Behind and the appy curriculum�� a controversial program in the Britain that requires children to hit a series of sixty-nine targets by age fivespects of which choolify� early learners and push quasi-formal learning too soon.

Twenty-two hard-hitting chapters by leading educators, researchers, policy-makers, and parents advocate for alternative ways for slowing childhood, better policy-making, and, most important, the right learning at the right time in children growth, when they are developmentally ready.

CHAPTERS

PART I: Policy Making and the Erosion of Childhood:
The Case of the Early Years Foundation Stage
1. The EYFS and the Real Foundations of Children Early Years � Penelope Leach
2. Challenging Government Policy-making for the Early Years:
Early Open EYE Contributions � Margaret Edgington, Richard House, Lynne Oldfield, and Sue Palmer
3. Against the Government Grain: The Experience of Forging a Path to EYFS Exemption � JOHN DOUGHERTY
4. The Impact of the EYES on Childminders � Arthur and Pat Adams
5. A Parent Challenge to New Labour Early Years Foundation Stage � Frances Laing
6. The Tickell Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage: An pen EYE� dialogue � The Open EYE Campaign

PART II: The Foundations of Child Development and Early Learning:
Perspectives, Principles and Practices

7. The Myth of Early Stimulation for Babies � Sylvie H彋u
8. Current Perspectives on the Early Childhood Curriculum � Lilian Katz
9. Physical Foundations for Learning � Sally Goddard Blythe
10. The Unfolding Self he Essence of Personality � Kim Simpson
11. The Democratization of Learning � Wendy Ellyatt
12. The Steiner Waldorf Foundation Stage � 13. Can We Play? � David Elkind
14. Play � Transforming Thinking � Tricia David
15. Challenging the Reggio Emilia Approach with Relational Materialist Thinking and an Ethics of Potentialities � Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

Part III: Advocacy, Research and Policy Making
for Children Early Years� Learning

16. f I Wanted My Child to Learn to Read and Write, I Wouldn Start from Here� � Sue Palmer
17. Viewing the Long-Term Effects of Early Reading with an Open Eye � Sebastian Suggate
18. Early Childhood Research and its Political Usage: Some Cautionary Remarks � Richard House
19. Does Not Compute, Revisited: Screen Technology in Early Years Education � Aric Sigman
20. An Inveterate Early Childhood Campaigner � Margaret Edgington interviewed by Richard House

Part IV: Ways Ahead to Achievable Futures

21. Education and Paradigm Shift � Grethe Hooper Hansen
22. Early Childhood: A Policy-Making Perspective � Barry Sheerman
Towards the Future: Implications and Recommendations for Educationalists and Policy-makers � Wendy Scott and Richard House
AFTERWORD � Richard Brinton and Gabriel Millar