'be Realistic, Demand the Impossible': A Memoir of Work in Childcare and Education

ISBN-13: 9781138064911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Helen Penn

Opis

An astute exploration of the complexities of working and learning in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care, Professor Helen Penn tells of her experiences of working as a teacher, social worker, campaigner, researcher and writer, and so reflects on the perennial and complex issues which shape this expanding field.

Spis treści

Foreword by Michel Vandenbroeck  Acknowledgements  Chapter One: Memoir as Method  Chapter Two: Teaching in London  Chapter Three: The Red Republic of Wandsworth  Chapter Four: Who Needs Nurseries – We Do!  Chapter Five: Laborious Democracy  Chapter Six: Tanzania  Chapter Seven: Becoming a Researcher  Chapter Eight: A Workday University  Chapter Nine: Southern Africa  Chapter Ten: Swimming Pools in the Steppes and Pianos in the Desert  Chapter Eleven: The Noise of Time

O autorze

Helen Penn is now Professor Emerita at the University of East London and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She has undertaken work for a variety of international organizations including EU, OECD, UNICEF, UNESCO and Save the Children.