A New Vision for Early Childhood - Rethinking Our Relationships with Young Children

This innovative and thought-provoking book invites you to take a new look at your relationships with young children, reconsidering how toddlers- agency can be nurtured inside relational dynamics of cooperation and compromise in support of everyone-s wellbeing. The book presents ethnographic findings on the culture and needs of toddlers through a close look at the behaviors and situational context of two-year-old Emily. Through this example, the author offers observations of common social practices in early childhood contexts, including how adults sometimes implement age-based segregation, practice over-infantilization, and excessively manage the time and bodies of very young people. Inviting self-reflection and inquiry into the limitations of some of the frameworks we live and work within, the book details action strategies for shifting adult-child relationships from vertical/hierarchal structures centered in power and control into horizontal/reciprocal structures centered in cooper