Too Much, Too Soon?: Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood

By Richard House

How to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood? Children's lives have been speeded up by commercialisation, 'adultification', and the government's 'nappy curriculum' which 'schoolifies' them and pushes quasi-formal learning too soon. Now, in twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the 'right learning at the right time' in children's growth ? learning when they are developmentally ready.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907359028
• ISBN13: 9781907359026
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Hawthorn Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"