Making a place for pleasure in early childhood education 
edited by Joseph Tobin. 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  [(c)1997.] 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : the missing discourse of pleasure and desire /    Civilizing bodies : children in day care /    Classroom management and the erasure of teacher desire /    The "no touch" policy /    Playing doctor in two cultures : the United States and Ireland /    Carnival in the classroom : elementary students making videos /    Sexist and heterosexist responses to gender bending /    The pervert in the classroom /    Keeping it quiet : gay teachers in the primary grades /  Joseph Tobin --   Robin L. Leavitt and Martha Bauman Power --   Anne M. Phelan --   Richard Johnson --   Joseph Tobin --   Donna J. Grace and Joseph Tobin --   Gail Boldt --   Jonathan G. Silin --   James R. King. 
<br/><br/> Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are forbidden. The quality of the lives of our children and their teachers is thereby diminished, contend the contributors to this timely book. In response to much-publicized incidents of child abuse by caretakers, a "moral panic" has swept over early childhood education. In this book, experienced teachers of young children and teacher-education experts issue a plea for sanity, for restoring a sense of balance to preschool, nursery school, and kindergarten classrooms.  The contributors to this book explore how caretakers of preschool children and other adults have overreacted to fears about child abuse. Drawing on feminist, queer, and poststructural theories, the authors argue for the restoration of pleasure as a goal of early childhood education. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300146493 0300146493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Early childhood education--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Teacher-student relationships--United States.<br/>Child development--United States.<br/>Sex (Psychology)<br/>Pleasure--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Child psychology--United States.<br/>Early childhood education--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Child development -- <br/>Child psychology -- <br/>Early childhood education -- <br/>Early childhood education -- <br/>Pleasure -- <br/>Sex (Psychology).<br/>Teacher-student relationships -- 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1139.25