(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education and Care
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Beschreibung
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood education and care. The chapters in the book describe and discuss various theories, including the cultural historical wholeness approach, Bronfenbrenner's ecology of human development, the theory of social capital, the theory of collaboration, family-school partnership models proposed by Epstein and Hornby, Bourdieu's social theory, the theory of practice architectures, the discourse/narrative theory, and posthumanism. By proposing the concept of more-than-parents, the authors aim to embrace both the diversity of intergenerational family configurations and the agency of materiality, artifacts, and the involvement of more-than-human actors.
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood education and care. The chapters in the book describe and discuss various theories, including the cultural historical wholeness approach, Bronfenbrenner's ecology of human development, the theory of social capital, the theory of collaboration, family-school partnership models proposed by Epstein and Hornby, Bourdieu's social theory, the theory of practice architectures, the discourse/narrative theory, and posthumanism. By proposing the concept of more-than-parents, the authors aim to embrace both the diversity of intergenerational family configurations and the agency of materiality, artifacts, and the involvement of more-than-human actors.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Presents a critical comparison of theories used in early childhood education Offers empirical illustrations of parental collaboration from different regions of the world Addresses theoretical and blind spots that resonate for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers
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Alicja R. Sadownik
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Open Access Parental involvement Parental engagement Families in education Democracy deficit Cultural-historical wholeness approach Bronfenbrenner's ecological system theory Theoretical models of Epstein and Hornby Theory of social capital Bourdieu's social theory Theory of discourse Narrative inquiry Quality Theory of practice architectures Partnership in education