Description: Bodies As Sites of Cultural Reflection in Early Childhood Education, Paperback by Burke, Rachael S.; Duncan, Judith, ISBN 1138795046, ISBN-13 9781138795044, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The authors argue that the focus on the thinking and communication of young children and teachers in early childhood education research needs to be balanced with research on the body and its location, regulation, mediation, and shaping by rituals, the natural world, and design in these settings. They contend that implicit cultural practices shape interactions in this context and that they often go unnoticed. They draw on the theories of Michel Foucault, Mary Douglas, and Marcel Mauss in terms of the body as a political site for discipline, domestication, and training; the body and its actions as symbolic; and techniques of the body and bodily habitus, to illustrate how kindergarten programs in New Zealand and Japan discipline the bodies of children and teachers, deal with purity and impurity of the body, and display and reproduce culturally characteristic techniques of the body. They discuss discourses surrounding children's bodies and how they are the focus of surveillance and regulation in New Zealand and viewed through nostalgia and innocence in Japan; how the body reflects the curricula of each country through sensory play, embodied techniques, and physicality; how the discourse of risk has influenced practice and policy in the field; how teachers try to discipline and order children's bodies through noise, conflict, time, and space; and how cultural concepts like pollution and impurity conflict with the reality of hygiene and dirt in these settings. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Bodies As Sites of Cultural Reflection in Early Childhood Educati
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bodies As Sites of Cultural Reflection in Early Childhood Education
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: General, Personality, Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Subject Area: Education, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Rachael S. Burke, Judith Duncan
Series: Changing Images of Early Childhood Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
