Description
Product ID: | 9781907359026 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Early Years |
Title: | Too Much, Too Soon? |
Subtitle: | Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood |
Authors: | Author: Richard House |
Page Count: | 376 |
Subjects: | Educational strategies and policy, Educational strategies & policy, Pre-school and kindergarten, Pre-school & kindergarten |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Twenty-three hard-hitting chapters from leading educators and parents, advocating alternative ways ahead for better policy-making and ''right learning at the right time'' . How to nurture young children''s well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children''s lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, ''adultification'', and the government''s ''nappy curriculum'' which ''schoolifies'' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the ''right learning at the right time'' in children''s growth ? learning when they are developmentally ready. |
Imprint Name: | Hawthorn Press |
Publisher Name: | Hawthorn Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-09-06 |