Educación y Cuidado en la Primera Infancia Pedagogía Desde el Jardín Maternal Book by Alicia R. W. de Camilloni Editorial Paidós (Spanish Edition)

• Editorial: PAIDOS
• Pages: 296
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 9789501298963

"Education and Care in Early Childhood" lays the foundation for the importance of daycare centers as educational institutions, offering criteria to reflect on and recreate practices and policies directed towards early childhood. Education and care during the first three years of life constitute pedagogical actions with a profound ethical and social significance.

With a friendly writing style, solid scientific foundations, and rich examples from their own experiences, Gabriela Fairstein and Mercedes Mayol Lassalle provide a renewed perspective on early childhood education in daycare centers. "In early childhood, every act of care is educational, and all education is a form of care," the authors assert. "The daycare center is a school, but a different kind of school." They underscore the professionalism of education and care in early childhood while highlighting the specificity of daycare centers. The book delves into aspects such as classroom work, institutional organization, and the development of social programs.

This book approaches education and care as an opportunity to enrich child development and family parenting practices. It considers early childhood as a significant life stage in itself, not solely as preparation for the future. It refers to a daycare center that cooperates and educates in conjunction with families and the community, within an intercultural and flexible framework that fosters inclusion and attends to diversity.