Reading………

Campbell, R (1996) Literacy in Nursery Education. Staffordshire: Trentham Books Limited

• Looks into the role of storytelling in the classroom. The advantages more than the disadvantages.
• The teacher and the play are relationship – how space is relevant in the child’s education
  
  FOUND THE ABOVE TO NOT BE RELEVANT

Gilkes, J (1987) Developing Nursery Education. Milton Keynes: Open University Press

• Why parents decide upon nurseries
• The purpose of nurseries from when they originally established to their purposes today.
• How nurseries carry out their purposes. What activities they carry and why.
• A structure/curriculum for nurseries
• The need to prepare the child for school.

Anthony Giddens “prized child” http://old.lse.ac.uk/collections/meetthedirector/pdf/23-Jan-02.pdf

• Demographic changes
• Infertility
• Changing patterns of the family unit

A summary of the Giddens talk:

Politics within relationships, the need to have a democracy within a relationship, an equal balance between partners and in decisions about children. The shift of family tradition: “you cannot form a type of family which is so different from traditional families and still call it a family. I think this school of thought, which tends to be, but is not inevitably, linked to rightist political positions, would say that the family is in a state of crisis.”
The “prized child”, children are seen as more precious in comparison to tradition where there were many children in one family and they would carry on their fathers work or become house wives. Traditionally, children would contribute to the “economic unit” of the family. However, nowadays family is seen more as “a set of relationships based much more upon communication and especially based upon emotional communication.”
Partners in relationships: same sex, is this considered a family if they decide to have children? Is it morally right? There are concerns here with society and culture. The relationships that same sex partners have with their children; who takes on the role of the mother and of the father? Do they have roles?