Feminism S In Early Childhood

Author : Kylie Smith,Kate Alexander,Sheralyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811030574

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Feminism(s) in Early Childhood by Kylie Smith,Kate Alexander,Sheralyn Campbell Pdf

This unique book brings together international scholars from around the globe to examine how different feminist theories are being used in early childhood research, policy and pedagogy. The array of feminist discourses captured by the authors offer contextualised possibilities for disrupting dominant patriarchal beliefs and producing change. The authors address and challenge how early childhood experiences, institutions and practices produce gendered effects across and within diverse contexts and demonstrate how feminism(s) in action can be used to reconceptualise research methods, government policy, children’s learning, teaching practice and educational resources. In this way, the book contributes to creating new knowledge connections and community alliances in the global effort to end gender-based inequalities across local and global communities.

Author : Mary E. Hauser,Janice Jipson
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Child development
ISBN : UOM:39015045684167

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Intersections by Mary E. Hauser,Janice Jipson Pdf

"Intersections: Feminisms/Early Childhoods" presents a continuing dialogue among early childhood educators who name themselves as feminists. Essays by individual contributors are woven together by the coeditors as they interrogate the relationship of feminist theory to early childhood practice. In considering the identity of feminist early childhood educators, the first section of this book reconsiders historical events in early childhood education from a feminist perspective, in many cases renaming the issues and reclaiming the history. The second section of the book reflects on early childhood practice and feminist pedagogy through the narratives of practicing early childhood professionals working in day care, public school, and university settings. The final section of the book examines significant issues facing early childhood from a feminist perspective, including the roles and representations of women and children, the analysis of economic and cross-cultural realities of child care and the consideration of public policy.

Author : Rachel Rosen,Katherine Twamley
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787350656

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Feminism and the Politics of Childhood by Rachel Rosen,Katherine Twamley Pdf

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Chapter authors focus on local contexts as well as their global interconnections, and draw on diverse theoretical traditions such as poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, postcolonialism, political economy, and the ethics of care. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups. Praise for Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? ‘This book is genuinely ground-breaking.’ ‒ Val Gillies, University of Westminster ‘Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? asks an impossible question, and then casts prismatic light on all corners of its impossibility.’ ‒ Cindi Katz, CUNY ‘This provocative and stimulating publication comes not a day too soon.’ ‒ Gerison Lansdown, Child to Child ‘A smart, innovative, and provocative book.’ ‒ Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University ‘This volume raises and addresses issues so pressing that it is surprising they are not already at the heart of scholarship.’ ‒ Ann Phoenix, UCL

Author : Brooke Richardson,Rachel Langford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Early childhood teachers
ISBN : 1350267228

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The Early Childhood Educator by Brooke Richardson,Rachel Langford Pdf

"Across the globe the work of early childhood educators, who are predominantly women, is misunderstood, underpaid and undervalued. Perspectives on early childhood educators are highly contentious: are they child development experts, oppressed workers, maternal substitutes, technicians, facilitators of early learning, or something else? This volume features chapter authors from Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the USA and New Zealand, who work with a particular feminist perspective. The feminist theories covered include materialist feminism, poststructural feminism, decolonizing feminisms, post humanist feminism, new materialist feminism, feminist ethics of care, womanist feminism, postcolonial feminism, femme theory and feminist queer theory. The chapter authors describe the key themes of these theories and explore how they can illuminate our understandings of the early childhood educator. The editors of the volume offer an introduction and commentaries that explore solidarities and tensions between the feminisms to generate critical conversations about the work, lived experiences, and agency of early childhood educators. The volume contributes to shifting understandings of the early childhood educator in the contexts of culture, practice, policy and politics."--

Author : Denise Hodgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351014427

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Gender and Care in Teaching Young Children by Denise Hodgins Pdf

Gender and Care in Pedagogical Relations with Young Children is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices. Drawing on a collaborative research study with early childhood educators and young children, the author explores what an engagement with human-and non-human relationality does to complicate conversations about gender and care. By employing a material feminist analysis of early childhood education, this book rethinks dominant Western individualist pedagogies in order to politically reposition them within a relationality framework.

Author : Rachel Langford,Brooke Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350267206

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The Early Childhood Educator by Rachel Langford,Brooke Richardson Pdf

Across the globe the work of early childhood educators, who are predominantly women, is misunderstood, underpaid and undervalued. Perspectives on early childhood educators are highly contentious: are they child development experts, oppressed workers, maternal substitutes, technicians, facilitators of early learning, or something else? This volume features chapter authors from Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the USA and New Zealand, examine a range of contemporary feminist theories in relation to the early childhood educator. The feminist theories covered include materialist feminism, poststructural feminism, decolonizing feminisms, posthumanist feminism, new materialist feminism, feminist ethics of care, womanist feminism, postcolonial feminism, femme theory and feminist queer theory. The editors of the volume offer an introduction and commentaries that explore solidarities and tensions between the feminisms to generate critical conversations about the work, lived experiences, and agency of early childhood educators. The volume contributes to shifting understandings of the early childhood educator in the contexts of culture, practice, policy and politics.

Author : Vina Adriany
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040086483

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Gender and Power in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia by Vina Adriany Pdf

Adriany explores gender discourses in early childhood education in Indonesia, as well as how teachers and children are engaged in the process of constructing, negotiating, and resisting dominant gender discourses in kindergartens. Using an ethnographic approach, Adriany explores how both the teachers and children are doing and undoing their gender. She adopts feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial theories through her research and, in that context, views gender as something fluid and unfixed. The book also investigates the methodological aspect where the authors have both an inside and outside perspective. Each chapter aims to present and complicate the taken-for-granted practices in kindergartens that relate to how gender and power are constructed. The findings of this book show the extent to which early childhood education becomes a space for the teachers and children to construct, negotiate, as well as resist dominant gender discourses in kindergartens. Offering insights into local and global contexts that shape gender values in early years, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers, scholars, and students in early childhood education, gender studies, and comparative education.

Author : Fikile Nxumalo,Christopher P. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351592857

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Disrupting and Countering Deficits in Early Childhood Education by Fikile Nxumalo,Christopher P. Brown Pdf

This powerful edited collection disrupts the deficit-oriented discourses that currently frame the field of early childhood education (ECE) and illuminates avenues for critique and opportunities for change. Researchers from across the globe offer their insight and expertise in challenging the logic within ECE that often frames children and their families through gaps, risks, and deficits across such issues as poverty, language, developmental psychology, teaching, and learning. Chapters propose practical responses to these manufactured crises and advocate for democratic practices and policies that enable ECE programs to build on the wealth of cultural and personal knowledge children and families bring to the early learning process. Moving beyond a dependence on deficits, this book offers opportunities for scholars, researchers, and students to consider their practices in early education and develop their understanding of what it means to be an educator who seeks to support all children.

Author : Lisa S. Goldstein
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015002649045

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Teaching with Love by Lisa S. Goldstein Pdf

Teachers commonly talk about loving their students, yet no effort has been made to explore the powerful educational potential inherent in these loving feelings. Teaching with Love breaks new ground by paying careful, scholarly attention to the nature, the scope, the dimensions, and the variety of teacherly love. In a highly readable narrative that builds on the feminist notion of an ethic of care and draws from the fields of psychology and women's studies, this book examines and analyzes the experiences of two primary grade teachers as they set about trying to create and enact a vision of early childhood education centered around loving relationships.

Author : Rachel Chapman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031467981

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Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education by Rachel Chapman Pdf

This book explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how early childhood educators’ views on children’s gender identity influence their practice in Australia. The author utilizes feminist post-structuralism, queer theory and performativity as theoretical approaches, and feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when such environments are socially and politically contentious. It then identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while considering how to disrupt normative notions of gender and promote the deployment of discursive agency.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005824

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Sankofa: Appreciating the Past in Planning the Future of Early Childhood Education, Care and Development in Africa by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Shirley A. Kessler,Beth Blue Swadener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000651096

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Educating for Social Justice in Early Childhood by Shirley A. Kessler,Beth Blue Swadener Pdf

Bringing together scholarship and examples from practice, this book explores ways in which early childhood curriculum – including classroom practices and community contexts – can more actively engage with a range of social justice issues, democratic principles and anti-oppressive practices. Featuring a stellar list of expert contributors, the chapters in this volume present a cross-section of contemporary issues in childhood education. The text highlights the voices of children, teachers and families as they reflect on everyday experiences related to issues of social justice, inclusion and oppression, as well as ways young children and their teachers engage in activism. Chapters explore curriculum and programs that address justice issues, particularly educating for democracy, and culminate in a focus on the future, offering examples of resistance and visions of hope and possibility. Designed for practitioners, graduate students and researchers in early childhood, this book challenges readers to explore the ways in which early childhood education is – and can be – engaging with social justice and democratic practices.

Author : Dominic F. Gullo,M. Elizabeth Graue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429887161

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Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education by Dominic F. Gullo,M. Elizabeth Graue Pdf

Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education offers a new framework for examining the diverse scientific perspectives that shape early childhood education. As the field takes on an increasing role in addressing children’s educational, developmental, and environmental needs, it is critical to more fully understand and appreciate the diverse scientific roots of contemporary early childhood education. This edited collection brings together leading researchers to explain and unpack perspectives that are not often associated with early childhood education, yet have made significant contributions to its development and evolution. Essential reading for anyone working with young children, this critical and insightful text illuminates the connections between our social values, science, and research in the field.

Author : Andi Salamon,Angela Chng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429814839

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Multiple Early Childhood Identities by Andi Salamon,Angela Chng Pdf

Recognising multiple cultural, ethical and geographical influences which impact on the development of a child’s identity, this insightful text explores the role of early childhood practitioners and settings in nurturing and navigating the child’s sense of being and belonging. Multiple Early Childhood Identies confronts the diverse factors which influence early identity-formation to emphasise the child’s understanding of self, outsiders’ projections and the messages communicated by educators, family members and the wider community as critical to a child’s identity and wellbeing. Written to provoke group discussion and extend thinking, this text also provides opportunities for international comparison, points for reflection and editorial provocations and will help students engage critically with the concept of identity-formation and influencing factors. Chapters are divided into four key sections which reflect major influences on practice and pedagogy: Being alongside children Those who educate Embedding families and communities Working with systems Offering in-depth discussion of the diverse perspectives, experiences and practices which impact on the formation of the child’s identity, this text will enhance understanding, support self-directed learning and provoke and transform thinking at both graduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in the field of early childhood education and care, for students, educators, integrated service providers and policy makers.

Author : Moncrieff Cochran,Rebecca S. New
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1449 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313014482

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Early Childhood Education by Moncrieff Cochran,Rebecca S. New Pdf

Early childhood education has reached a level of unprecedented national and international focus. Parents, policy makers, and politicians have opinions as well as new questions about what, how, when, and where young children should learn. Teachers and program administrators now find curriculum discussions linked to dramatic new understandings about children's early learning and brain development. Early childhood education is also a major topic of concern internationally, as social policy analysts point to its role in a nation's future economic outlook. As a groundbreaking contribution to its field, this four-volume handbook discusses key historical and contemporary issues, research, theoretical perspectives, national policies, and practices.