Book Reviews: The Subject of Childhood,Critical Issues in Early Childhood Professional Development

Butler J. (1997) The Psychic Life of Power. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

Pollard R. (2008) Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the linguistic turn in psychotherapy. London: Karnac Books.

Barbour N. & Lash M. (2009) The Professional Development of Teachers of Young Children, in Feeney S. Galper A. , & Seefeldt C. (Eds) Continuing Issues in Early Childhood Education, 3rd edn. Upper Saddle River: Merrill/Pearson.

Claxton G. (1999) The Anatomy of Intuition, in Atkinson T. & Claxton G. (Eds) The Intuitive Practitioner: On the value of not always knowing what one is doing. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Haydon G. (1996) Should Teachers have their Own Professional Ethics? Journal of Philosophy of Education, 30(2), 301–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1996.tb00399.x

Hyson M. (2003) Preparing Early Childhood Professionals: NAEYC's standards for programs. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Lobman C. Ryan S. & McLaughlin J. (2006) Toward a Unified System of Early Childhood Teacher Education and Professional Development: Conversations with stakeholders. http://www.fcd-us.org/usr_doc/TowardAUnifiedSystem.pdf

Osgood J. (2006) Professionalism and Performativity: The feminist challenge facing early years practitioners, Early Years, 26(2), 187–199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575140600759997

Spodek B. & Saracho O. (Eds) (2006) The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Zigler E. & Styfco S. (2004) The Head Start Debates. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.