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Chapter 1
What are the images of childhood?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
How can images of childhood be used as frames for practice?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
Resources
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
This chapter reviews historical and current images of childhood and perspectives on child development in order to bring us to an understanding of the multiple ways of conceptualizing childhood and being a child. Culture and society have a significant impact on the ways in which children develop and learn. Unfortunately, Western child development theory has been the dominant, foundational source of knowledge, curriculum, and pedagogy in the field of early childhood. Reconceptualist scholars have challenged this view and the images of childhood associated with it.
Some of the key ideas in this chapter include:
The chapter explores the images of children and childhood in relation to the following key questions:
1. What are the images of childhood?
2. How can images of childhood be used as frames for practice?
Click on one of the questions and you will find activities that allow you to check, extend, and apply your understanding of this chapter.