Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child av Alison Clark

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<P>This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood Education and Care that enable a different pace and rhythm, against the backdrop of the acceleration in early childhood and the proliferation of testing and measurement. Diverse approaches are explored to enable an ¿unhurried child¿ and less hurried adults. </P><P><EM>Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child</EM> is divided in three parts.<EM></EM>Part 1, Reasons to be slow, looks at the pressures in Early Childhood Education and Care to speed up and for children to be ¿readied¿ for the next stage. The book then explores different relationships with time for young children and educators. Part 2, Slow pedagogies and practices, explore some of the forms slow practices can take including outdoors, in the studio, in everyday routines, through stories, in pedagogical documentation and in ¿slow