02363    a2200349   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001600138072001600154072001400170072001400184072002100198072002100219072002100240072002100261072002100282072001800303100001600321245005600337250000600393260003200399300001000431520148500441700002601926700002101952700002501973999001501998113878264520250317100413.0250312042014GB        22           eng    a9781138782648  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 54.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJNLA2thema7 aJNAM2thema7 aJNLA2bic7 aJNAM2bic7 aEDU0290002bisac7 aEDU0230002bisac7 aEDU0000002bisac7 aEDU0240002bisac7 aEDU0400002bisac7 a372.212bisac1 aSue Nichols10aResourcing Early LearnersbNew Networks, New Actors  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20140327  a210 p  bThe landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social agenda aimed at forming citizens well prepared to play an active part in a globalised knowledge economy, the idea of ‘early learning’ expresses the necessity of engaging caregivers right from the start of children’s lives. Nichols, Rowsell, Rainbird, and Nixon investigate this trend over three years, in two countries, and three contrasting regions, by setting themselves the task of tracing every service and agent offering resources under the banner of early learning. Far from a dry catalogue, the study involves in-depth ethnographic research in fascinating spaces such as a church-run centre for African refugee women and children, a state-of-the-art community library and an Australian country town. Included is an unprecedented inventory of an entire suburban mall. Richly visually documented, the study employs emerging methods such as Google-mapping to trace the travels of actual parents as they search for particular resources. Each chapter features a context investigated in this large, international study: the library, the mall, the clinic, and the church. The author team unravels new spaces and new networks at work in early childhood literacy and development.1 aJennifer Rowsell4A011 aHelen Nixon4A011 aSophia Rainbird4A01  c2624d2624