Children's Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services Discourses, Policies and Practices /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Farini, Federico (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scollan, Angela (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, 25
• Subjects: Child development.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Early Childhood Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

This book investigates the position of young children's self-determination within a range of social contexts, such as education, social care, mass-media, health, politics, law and the family. It brings to the fore the voices of the children in the present, with their interests, agendas and righ...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Practices
• 2. Practices / 1. Italy. Facilitating participation in early childhood education
• 3. Practices / 2. Japan. The exploration of four-year-olds potential: focusing the democratic meeting during the Japanese Field Day
• 4. Practices / 3. Finland. A collective method of early childhood self-determination
• 5. Practices / 4. England. Finding the voice of children. Video-observation to discover children's claims of knowledge through play
• 6. Practices / 5. Kazakhstan. Keeping it real: making space for play in early education in Kazakhstan
• 7. Practices / 6. United States of America. Hybrid-transitions as a space for children's agency. A case-study from a pre-kindergarten in Boston
• 8. Practices / 7. Wales. Foregrounding relationships in classroom practices framing children's learning: Case studies from two primary school classrooms in Wales
• 9. Practices / 8. New Zealand. "You are spectacular!" Considering babies' participation in an early childhood community
• Discourses. 10. Discourses / 1. Australia. Whose rights? The right of the child to be heard in the context of the family: An Australian early childhood perspective
• 11. Discourses / 2. Ireland. Two ears and only one mouth. Listening to children's voice in Irish Social Works through policy, cultural and organisational filters
• 12. Discourses / 3. Kenya. Challenging Negative Perceptions around the 'African Child'
• 13. Discourses / 4. Brazil. Accessing Disabled Children's Rights: Attitudes towards and Challenges for SEND in Brazil
• 14. Discourses / 5. Mexico. Children's Rights in Mexico. Analysis of a Legal and Policy Framework
• 15. Discourses / 6. England and Wales. The position of children's rights in the discourse on citizenship in Early Years Education and Care. The case of the Early Years Foundation Stage for England
• 16. Discourses / 7. New Zealand. "I have a new taiaha": Learning new ways to advocate for the rights of mokopuna Māori
• 17. Discourses / 8. China. Children's participation rights in Chinese early childhood education: a critical investigation of policy and research
• 18. As a conclusion, for the future. A discussion on trust, agency and the semantics of rights in intergenerational relationships.