Early Years Education Edited by Rod Parker-Rees, Jenny Willan
Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge – 1,760 pages Series:
Major Themes in Education The education and care of children
under the age of eight has become one of the major focuses of
attention in recent education research and policy-making around
the world, and it is now widely recognised that investment in
provision at this stage can be both cost effective and
beneficial to the social fabric of communities. Approaches to
education in nurseries, kindergartens and preschools have
traditionally been significantly different from those that
inform the teaching of older children but, until recently, these
approaches have had little impact on education beyond early
years settings. This wide-ranging collection of papers provides
a valuable resource for scholars who need to ground their own
study in wider historical and global discourses concerning the
education of children under eight. Including both important
historical sources and contemporary analy