Walking the borderland / Hilary G. Conklin and Kyunghwa Lee. Are they ready yet? / Kyunghwa Lee. What's more important: numbers or shoes? Readiness, curriculum, and nonsense in a rural preschool / Amy Noelle Parks and Sarah Bridges-Rhoads -- Who is normal? Who is abnormal? Rethinking child development from a cultural psychological perspective / Kyunghwa Lee -- Being present in the middle school years / Hilary G. Conklin -- Am I a novice teacher? The voices of induction teachers in a preschool / Su Kyoung Park and Amy Noelle Parks -- Responsivity rather than readiness / M. Elizabeth Graue -- Responsive to what? / Mark D. Vagle. Pursuing an answerable education for young adolescents: implications for critical middle grades literacy teacher education / Mark D. Vagle -- Black adolescent identity, double- consciousness, and a sociohistorically constructed adolescence / Lisa Harrison -- Fourteen is the new thirty: adolescent girls, their bodies, and sexuality / Hilary E. Hughes -- The SMART Board as an adolescent classroom technology / Sarah Bridges-Rhoads -- A critical perspective on human development: implications for adolescence, classroom practice, and middle school policy / Enora R. Brown -- Conversations across fields / Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle. A schismatic family and a gated community? / Mark D. Vagle and Amy Noelle Parks -- Walking the borderland / Hilary G. Conklin and Kyunghwa Lee.
Summary:
In this book, the contributors challenge dominant discourses and practices in the fields of early childhood and middle grades education that are based on the last century's grand developmental theories. The contributors to this book examine the notion of development in their own work by employing various alternative frameworks, including Bakhtinian ideas, Buddhism, cultural psychology, and post-structuralism. --from publisher description.
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