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To aspire toward ECEC systems that support broad learning, participation and democracy" : reflections on John Bennett's final words on starting strongIn Nóirín Hayes & Mathias Urban (eds.), In search of social justice: John Bennett's lifetime contribution to early childhood policy and practice, Routledge. 2019.
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9Book Review: The Care Crunch?: Janet C. Gornick, Marcia K. Meyers et al. Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor London and New York, Verso, 2009, 465 pp., ISBN 978-1-84467-325-4 (review)European Journal of Women's Studies 17 (3): 281-284. 2010.
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2Meetings Across the Paradigmatic DivideEducational Philosophy and Theory 39 (3): 229-245. 2007.The problematique addressed by the article is the growth of a dominant discourse in early childhood education and care, which has a strong effect on policy and practice, paralleled by an increasing number of other discourses which problematise most of the values, assumptions and understandings of the former. Yet there is very little engagement between these discourses, in large part because they are situated within different paradigms—modernity in the former case, postfoundationalism in the latt…Read more
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6Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia: A Selection of His Writings and Speeches, 1945-1993 (edited book)Routledge. 2016.Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education. Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he wrote or said about early childhood education has been available in English. This book helps fill th…Read more
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49Response to Eduardo M. Duarte’s Review of Radical Education and the Common SchoolStudies in Philosophy and Education 31 (5): 501-504. 2012.
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41Meetings across the paradigmatic divideEducational Philosophy and Theory 39 (3). 2007.The problematique addressed by the article is the growth of a dominant discourse in early childhood education and care, which has a strong effect on policy and practice, paralleled by an increasing number of other discourses which problematise most of the values, assumptions and understandings of the former. Yet there is very little engagement between these discourses, in large part because they are situated within different paradigms—modernity in the former case, postfoundationalism in the latt…Read more
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