Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-191) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Discourses of risk -- The biomedical approach to literacy: pathologizing practices within early literacy -- The pathologizing of culturally and linguistically diverse students in early-years classrooms -- Pathologizing within special education -- Communicating with a little help from friends: intergenerational art class as radical, asset-oriented curriculum -- Asset-oriented approaches to cultural and linguistic diversity in early childhood education -- Conclusion: talking points to foster asset-oriented practices in childhood and early childhood education.
Summary:
"Early Childhood Curricula and the De-pathologization of Childhood examines what is possible for young children when their education addresses their assets and is organized in ways that expand their identity options." "Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rachel M. Heydon and Luigi Iannacci shed light on the ways in which joint notions of normality and abnormality are used to pathologize childhood. As teachers and educational researchers, they offer first-hand accounts of processes that take individual children and turn them into 'others' who are seen as deficient or 'at risk.' Through a variety of critical, qualitative case studies that examine general literacy education, special education, early childhood education, and intergenerational learning environments, this book highlights the theoretical underpinnings of asset-oriented curricular practices and suggests what is possible for young children when their education begins from and cultivates their funds of knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
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