Too Much Too Soon?: Early learning and the erosion of childhood

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Richard House
Hawthorn Press, May 23, 2013 - Education - 376 pages
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.
 

Contents

Published Reviews
The Case of the Early Years Foundation
Early Open
The Impact of the EYFS on Childminders
An Open EYE Dialogue
PART II
Current Perspectives on the Early Childhood Curriculum
SALLY GODDARD BLYTHE
Challenging the Reggio Emilia Approach with Relational Materialist Thinking and
PART III
Viewing the Longterm Effects of Early Reading with an Open
Some Cautionary Remarks
Screen Technology in Early Years Education
Inveterate Campaigner for Early Childhood
PART IV
A Policymaking Perspective

The Unfolding SelfThe Essence of Personality
The Democratization of Learning
The Steiner Waldorf Foundation Stage To Everything There is a Season
Can We Play?
Play Transforming Thinking
Recommendations for Educators and Policymakers
Afterword RICHARD BRINTON AND GABRIELMILLAR
Index
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Richard House, Ph.D. lectures in Early Childhood Studies in the Department of Education Studies, University of Winchester. He is a Steiner kindergarten educator and founder-member of the Open EYE campaign, which has recently merged with Early Childhood Action. With Sue Palmer, he orchestrated the two Daily Telegraph open letters on 'toxic childhood' (2006) and 'play' (2007), and the open letter on the erosion of childhood in 2011. Richard writes extensively on childcare, education and psychotherapeutic issues, including regular columns in Teach Nursery and The Mother magazines. Too Much, Too Soon is Richard's tenth book.

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