The child's curriculum : working with the natural values of young children / edited by Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, Aline-Wendy Dunlop.

The Child's Curriculum Group was created by former nursery school teachers concerned about reduction of local government support for the schools they had nurtured. They have a lifelong commitment to excellent provision for young children and their families and they urge recognition of the benefits to a child and their lifetime of learning when parents and nursery educators nourish companionship in discovery of meaning for work and play in early years. The child's enthusiasm inspires development of a generous and valued 'common sense' in the community. The editors of our book are academics who investigate how the young child shares human vitality and learning. Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Emeritus Professor in Education at Strathclyde University, is Scottish Coordinator for the Pedagogies of Educational Transitions Project (POET), and Vice President of Early Education. She was head teacher at Westfield Court Nursery School in Edinburgh. Jonathan Delafield-Butt is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in Education at Strathclyde on the neuroscience and psychology of human movement and its growth in affectionate care for meaning-making. Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor in Psychology in Edinburgh, and Vice President of Early Education, is a psychobiologist with 50 years' experience in charting the development of communication from birth to symbolic communication by speech and writing. We invited experts in early education and care in different human worlds to share their experience of the strengths of children, and received wonderful contributions. We acknowledge the inspiration from the teachers who founded the Child's Curriculum project in 2006, and who continue to guide its progress.

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Defining the child's curriculum, and its role in the life of the community -- What young children give to our learning -- The importance of play -- The emotional and embodied nature of human understanding: sharing narratives of meaning -- Access to enriching environments in early childhood: paradise lost? -- The evolved developmental niche and children's developing morality -- Children's aesthetic agency: the pleasures and power of imagination -- The spiritual strengths of young children -- Early human relations set the foundation for adult health and working life -- Gender balance in the childcare workforce: why having more men in childcare is important -- The courage of utopia -- The child's curriculum as a gift: opening up the early level curriculum in Scotland -- Early childhood education and care policy: beyond quantity and quality, for human development -- Communities raising children together: collaborative consultation with a place-based initiative in Harlem -- Involving parents in their children's learning -- Children's 'working theories' as curriculum outcomes -- The spirit of the child inspires learning in the community: how can we balance this promise with the politics and practice of education? -- Index.

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