Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education

by Joseph J. Tobin

Book Overview

Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these--spontaneous and pleasurable--are no longer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300069685
• ISBN13: 9780300069686
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Scholarly Collection for Thoughtful Readers

This is a collection of articles by some leading theorists working in early childhood education and childhood cultural studies. Contributors consider and challenge discourses of early childhood education that have normalized particular perspectives on the good child and good teacher of early childhood. For those who think that the lives of young children and their teachers are a bit more complicated than the world of Barney, this is a thought-provoking, important read.