Early Childhood, Aging, and the Life Cycle Mapping Common Ground /

• Main Author: Silin, Jonathan G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood
• Subjects: Child development.; Gender identity in education.; Education-Philosophy.; Early Childhood Education.; Gender and Education.; Educational Philosophy.

In this book, Silin maps the common ground between early childhood and the period sociologists call "young-old age." Emphasizing the continuities that bind children and adults rather than the differences that traditional developmental psychology claims separate us, he focuses on the themes...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Life-changing Diagnosis: Mapping Common Ground between Young and Old
• 2. The Year of Turning Seventy: Finding Myself Among the Young-Old
• 3. Becoming a Nursery School Teacher: What Early Childhood Can Teach Us About the Rest of Life
• 4. Learning From Loss: Playing to Move Forward
• 5. Landing as an Immigrant: Starting Over at Midlife
• 6. If Memory Serves: How and Why I Remember the Difficult Times with Children
• 7. What's Love Got to Do With It: Navigating the Emotional Thicket of the Classroom
• 8. Vulnerable Teacher: Holding Space for the Things that Really Matter
• 9. Called to Account: Putting Anxiety to Work
• 10. Holding a Space for Hope. .