This paper places the pedagogies of love and care which typify the early years of practice in the context of evolution, arguing that, during an optimum window of development, young children are predisposed physiologically to benefit from the attention of multiple alloparents. This anthropological model of community stands in stark contrast to the individualistic and privatised notion of love in neoliberal cultures, indicating reasons why practitioners may be ambivalent about it. Moreover, it is argued that, whilst the notion of care is easily commoditised, the deeper concept of love, contextualised within wisdom and faith paths, is resistant to the money culture. In looking beyond neoliberalism at counter-cultural alternatives, alloparentin...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophies and Theories of Early Childhood Education and Care brings tog...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
Love is rarely mentioned in Early Childhood Education and Care and there is no agreed definition for...
This thesis examines practitioners’ constructions of love in the context of their work in Early Chil...
In an age of adultism in which children have been perceived as mere drains on society, schooling oft...
Abstract: Within the body of educational research, limited research exists on the role of critical a...
Young children spend an increasing amount of time in out of home care, as neuroscientific research ...
Framed as an extension of Noddings’ notion of the ‘ethic of care,’ the paper sets out an argument ab...
British Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) provision is characterized by a history of philant...
Abstract. This paper argues for a spiritual approach to the pedagogical anthropology of childhood. E...
Children's environments - especially relationships with caregivers - sculpt not only developing brai...
Early childhood education has been characterised in recent times by discussion associated with the s...
This thesis identifies and challenges two distinct modes of describing contemporary childhood and tr...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
This article seeks to draw attention to ways in which culturally based values and practices can and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophies and Theories of Early Childhood Education and Care brings tog...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
Love is rarely mentioned in Early Childhood Education and Care and there is no agreed definition for...
This thesis examines practitioners’ constructions of love in the context of their work in Early Chil...
In an age of adultism in which children have been perceived as mere drains on society, schooling oft...
Abstract: Within the body of educational research, limited research exists on the role of critical a...
Young children spend an increasing amount of time in out of home care, as neuroscientific research ...
Framed as an extension of Noddings’ notion of the ‘ethic of care,’ the paper sets out an argument ab...
British Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) provision is characterized by a history of philant...
Abstract. This paper argues for a spiritual approach to the pedagogical anthropology of childhood. E...
Children's environments - especially relationships with caregivers - sculpt not only developing brai...
Early childhood education has been characterised in recent times by discussion associated with the s...
This thesis identifies and challenges two distinct modes of describing contemporary childhood and tr...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
This article seeks to draw attention to ways in which culturally based values and practices can and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophies and Theories of Early Childhood Education and Care brings tog...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
Love is rarely mentioned in Early Childhood Education and Care and there is no agreed definition for...