Reconceptualist Movement: Early Childhood Education and Care

Reconceptualist Movement NAME INSTITUTION COURSE AND PREFIX NUMBER Reconceptualist Movement Reconceptualist Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) academics explore the reality of a particular truth and, therefore, of universality (Pacini-Ketchabaw & Pence, 2005). These scholars have problematized the fact that ECEC discipline has erected a true child which permits making sense of what children are, what they should be and what they need so as to fit into a precise ideal. Pacini-Ketchabaw and Pence (2005) explain that pioneers of the reconceptualist movement contended that reality does not exist independent of the knower and the process of knowing. According to this scholar, the Reconceptualist movement in the field of ECEC is a single aspect of postmodern thinking. Postmodern era philosophers argued against the structures that characterize modernity. Modernity had emerged from a set of profound social and intelligent revolutions aimed to establish an impartial science and worldwide e...