In the Pursuit of Unhappiness
The ‘measuring up’ of early childhood education in a seamless system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8857069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew S Gibbons (0000-0001-7395-3660, corresponding author), Andrew Gibbons (0000-0002-0847-5639, a New Zealand Tertiary College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 502-508 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2012.00855.x |
| OpenAlex | W2053970560, W4230705877 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
Recent government attention to the coherence between early childhood and compulsory school curricula in Aotearoa/New Zealand has led to debates regarding the educational aims of different education sectors Concerns regarding a ‘push-down’ of compulsory school aims are highlighted in this article, with reference to Nel Noddings’s Happiness and Education and the problem of an increased ‘measuring’ of early childhood education aims and outcomes. It is argued that removal of seams between early childhood and primary education may lead to unhappiness in early childhood education characterised by increasing standardisation and regulation and decreasing engagement with the aims of education—with, in Noddings’s words, ‘aims-talk’
Aotearoa · Curriculum · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Government (linguistics · Happiness · Pedagogy · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |