Beyond quality in early childhood education and care : postmodern perspectives

Abstract

1. What this book is about 2. Theoretical perspectives: modernity and postmodernity, power and ethics 3. Constructing early childhood institution: what do we think it is? 4. Constructing the early childhood institution: what do we think they are for? 5. Beyond the discourse of quality to the discourse of meaning making 6. The Stockholm project: constructing a pedagogy that speaks in the voice of the child, the pedagogue and the parent 7. Pedagogical documentation: a practice for reflection and democracy 8. Minority directions in the majority world: threats and possibilities