Child-Friendly Perspectives! What is childhood and what is development? Overview of
course, historical perspective of the study of childhood, the methods of
studying children, U N Convention of Child Rights (CRC), Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) related to Child Development also look at perspective from
children’s well being. Readings: Corsaro, The Sociology of Childhood pp 61-81 Prout, International Handbook of Children: Media and Culture pp. 21-35 Nayar, Information Technology: Challenges for Paradigm Shift from Obedience to Negotiations with Children pp 1-11 http://www.ungei.org/resources/1612_1631.html Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Look at highlights and overview and skim through the report. (optional) Garbarino, What Children can Tell Us pp 136-225 (optional handout - if you want to read this, please send me an email so I can make a copy for you) Jeffrey
Trawick-Smith, Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective 5th
Edition pp 16-33 (optional) |
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