Table of Contents

Foreword by Michel Vandenbroeck. Preface. Acknowledgement. Part One: Reasons to be slow. 1. Accelerated childhood. 2. Clock time. 3. Play time. 4. Slow pedagogies and slow knowledge.  Part Two Slow pedagogies and slow practices: What does slow look like in Early Childhood Education?. 5. Slow Practices in Place. 6. Slow practices and pedagogical documentation. 7. Slow practices and the everyday.  8. Slow practices and stories. 9. Slow listening in research and practice. Part Three: Moving forward. 10.Time for a rethink. Appendix. References.

About the Author

Alison Clark is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.