Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education

2024-01-28
Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Rachel Chapman
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031467981
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

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.

Gender and Power in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia

2024-08-01
Gender and Power in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia

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  • Author: Vina Adriany
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1040086489
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133

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.

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

2011-03-17
Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies

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  • Author: Lynn Prince Cooke
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135847509
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is the first to meld cross-time with cross-country comparisons, link macro structures to micro behavior, and connect class with gender dynamics to yield fresh insights into where we are on the road to gender equality, why it varies across industrialized countries, and the barriers to further progress.

It Takes Team Effort

2014-06-01
It Takes Team Effort

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  • Author: Lemuel W. Watson
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1623965616
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 105

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement. The book helps to broaden the group’s “collective identity” of those who work with male teachers and caregivers by expanding an understanding of their experiences in order to better ways of collaboration. This book serves as a practical guide and resource to challenge the status quo in following our own intuition about our life’s work as men and women in early childhood education. The central theme that is sought here is to remember the general purpose of education: to enlighten for multiple purposes and to ask the resounding questions of how do we best achieve this purpose as men and women working together without the confines of gender roles, especially as educators in early childhood and the general educational setting where gender roles are specific to men and women’s perceived ways of caring, nurturing, providing, and educating future generations.

Gender and Schooling in the Early Years

2005-09-01
Gender and Schooling in the Early Years

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  • Author: Janice Koch
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1607527693
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 213

In this volume, gender and schooling in the early years addresses a broad range of issues including, but not limited, to gender equity in education. We explore, for example, the complex world of play in Fromberg's chapter and are reminded that for young children, play involves issues of power and hierarchy in ways that parallel the role of gender in society. Miletta's study of preschool children in northern Italy, at Reggio Emilia, reveals a story of classroom interactions where gender differences are not part of the equation for the youngsters. Her chapter begs the question, "How does this environment empower all children, regardless of gender?" Two chapters provide a lens to the Montessori setting for young children. Wilgus studies the gendered patterns of young women teaching at a Montessori school, while Irby, Rodriguez, and Lara-Alecio explore the intersections of culture and gender at a bilingual Montessori public school. Further examining the preschool years, Plaster and Schiller address the current brain research and examine the ways in which the adults that staff early child care programs, and the environments that they offer, play an important role in the development of our children.

Rethinking Gender in Early Childhood Education

2000
Rethinking Gender in Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Glenda MacNaughton
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

This study reveals that the focus on individual development, which is promoted in early years education, does not produce gender equity. It shows that even very young children are aware of gender roles, and confronts commonly held beliefs.

Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care

2013-09-13
Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care

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  • Author: Carmen Dalli
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317987128
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

The professionalism of the early childhood sector has gained prominence on the policy agendas of many countries. National pedagogical frameworks or curricula and an upsurge of pathways to gaining or upgrading qualifications has led to a pervasive terminology of professionalism. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of this terminology, the question of what professionalism means in early years contexts remains open to debate. This book draws together the work of an international group of scholars who have engaged with this question. They ask: How can professionalism be conceptualised in early childhood settings? How might one act professionally in increasingly diverse and changing social and cultural contexts? Do we have a common ground of understanding about these terms? Are there key concepts that can be agreed upon? Drawing on research and experience across a wide range of national contexts, this book seeks an understanding of early childhood professionalism in local contexts that might throw light on the global implications of this term. This book was published as a special issue in the European Early Childhood Education Research Journal.

International Perspectives on Early Years Workforce Development

2015-01-14
International Perspectives on Early Years Workforce Development

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  • Author: Verity Campbell-Barr
  • Publisher: Critical Publishing
  • ISBN: 1909682802
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years and early childhood courses as well as interested practitioners. It looks at the current structure of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce in different countries, each of which represents a distinct philosophical tradition, tracing what has shaped this structure and examining how politics and policy have moulded the workforce over time. Each chapter analyses historical, philosophical and political developments in the respective country and looks at key theorists, the concepts of childhood that have shaped the workforce and the pedagogical approach. The unique aspects of each country are highlighted along with a consideration of what the future might hold for the workforce. Students and practitioners will achieve a more critical understanding of current practice and the beliefs which underpin particular pedagogical approaches while being encouraged to question their own values and practice.

Gender in Early Childhood Education

2023-02-11
Gender in Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Jo Warin
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1529612780
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

This book is an essential resource for exploring and deconstructing the gender binary in the early years sector. Drawing on Warin’s extensive research, it offers practical advice, examples of innovative classroom practice, and thought-provoking case studies, balanced alongside lively debate, scholarly discussion, and questions for reader reflection. The book not only covers the existing debates in the field, but proposes and advocates for a ′gender flexible′ approach to the teaching and learning of young children that challenges gender stereotypes and essentialism. The style and content bridge the gap between theory and practice making it perfect for an audience of early years education students, professionals, trainees and researchers. Jo Warin is Professor in Gender and Social Relationships in Education at Lancaster University

The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America

2015-07-06
The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America

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  • Author: Harry Willekens
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137441984
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.