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Title Making a place for pleasure in early childhood education / edited by Joseph Tobin
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages)
Contents Introduction : the missing discourse of pleasure and desire / Joseph Tobin -- Civilizing bodies : children in day care / Robin L. Leavitt and Martha Bauman Power -- Classroom management and the erasure of teacher desire / Anne M. Phelan -- The "no touch" policy / Richard Johnson -- Playing doctor in two cultures : the United States and Ireland / Joseph Tobin -- Carnival in the classroom : elementary students making videos / Donna J. Grace and Joseph Tobin -- Sexist and heterosexist responses to gender bending / Gail Boldt -- The pervert in the classroom / Jonathan G. Silin -- Keeping it quiet : gay teachers in the primary grades / James R. King
Summary 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 encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher-education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms
The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Early childhood education -- Social aspects -- United States
Teacher-student relationships -- United States
Child development -- United States
Sex (Psychology)
Pleasure -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Child psychology -- United States
Early childhood education -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
EDUCATION -- Preschool & Kindergarten.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Child development
Child psychology
Early childhood education -- Moral and ethical aspects
Early childhood education -- Social aspects
Pleasure -- Moral and ethical aspects
Sex (Psychology)
Teacher-student relationships
Kleinkinderziehung
Vergnügen
Kindergartenerziehung
Motivation
Ethik
Aufsatzsammlung
Ensino infantil -- Estados unidos.
Desenvolvimento da linguagem -- Estados unidos.
Interação professor aluno -- Estados unidos.
Psicologia educacional -- Estados unidos.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Tobin, Joseph Jay
ISBN 9780300146493
0300146493
1283950278
9781283950275