Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education

2015-03-24
Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 131767510X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education uncovers and interrogates some of the inherent colonialist tensions that are rarely acknowledged and often unwittingly rehearsed within contemporary early childhood education. Through building upon the prior postcolonial interventions of prominent early childhood scholars, Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education reveals how early childhood education is implicated in the colonialist project of predominantly immigrant (post)colonial settler societies. By politicizing the silences around these specifically settler colonialist tensions, it seeks to further unsettle the innocence presumptions of early childhood education and to offer some decolonizing strategies for early childhood practitioners and scholars. Grounding their inquiries in early childhood education, the authors variously engage with postcolonial theory, place theory, feminist philosophy, the ecological humanities and indigenous onto-epistemologies.

Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space

2019-04-25
Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space

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  • Author: Sarah Pinto
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811367299
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 307

This book brings together researchers from different fields, traditions and perspectives to examine the ways in which place and space might (be) unsettle(d). Researchers from across the humanities and social sciences have been drawn to the study of place and space since the 1970s, and the term ‘unsettled’ has been an occasional but recurring presence in this body of scholarship. Though it has been used to invoke a range of meanings, from the dangerous to the liberating, the term itself has rarely been at the centre of sustained examination. This collection highlights the idea of the unsettled in the scholarly investigation of place and space. The respective chapters offer a dialogue between a diverse and eclectic group of researchers, crossing significant disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries in the process. The purpose of the collection is to juxtapose a range of different approaches to, and perspectives on, the unsettling of place and space. In doing so, Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space makes an important contribution and offers new insights into how scholarship and research into different fields and practices may help us re-envision place and space.

International Handbook of Early Childhood Education

2017-10-10
International Handbook of Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Marilyn Fleer
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9402409270
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1620

This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The first volume of the handbook addresses theory, methodology, and the research activities and research needs of particular regions. The second volume examines in detail innovations and longstanding programs, curriculum and assessment, and conceptions and research into child, family and communities. The two volumes of this handbook address the current theory, methodologies and research needs of specific countries and provide insight into existing global similarities in early childhood practices. By paying special attention to what is happening in the larger world contexts, the volumes provide a representative overview of early childhood education practices and research, and redress the current North-South imbalance of published work on the subject.

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

2019-06-18
Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Jennifer J. Mueller
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351594710
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims, and approaches in early childhood curricula. Designed to provide a theoretical and philosophical foundation for examining teaching and learning in the early years, this fully updated and timely second edition provokes discussion and analysis among all readers. What influences operate (both historically and currently) to impact what happens in young children's classrooms? Whose perspectives are dominant and whose are ignored? What values are explicit and implicit? Each chapter gives readers a starting point for re-examining key topics, encourages a rich exchange of ideas in the university classroom, and provides a valuable resource for professionals. This second edition has been fully revised to reflect the current complexities and tensions inherent in curricular decision-making and features attention to policy, standardization, play, and diversity, providing readers with historical context, current theories, and new perspectives for the field. Curriculum in Early Childhood Education is essential reading for those seeking to examine curriculum in early childhood and develop a stronger understanding of how theories and philosophies intersect with the issues that accompany the creation and implementation of learning experiences.

Urban Nature and Childhoods

2020-06-29
Urban Nature and Childhoods

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  • Author: Iris Duhn
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000639037
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

This book challenges the notion that nature is a city’s opposite and addresses the often-overlooked concept of urban nature and how it relates to children’s experiences of environmental education. The idea of nature-deficit, as well as concerns that children in cities lack for experiences of nature, speaks to the anxieties that underpin urban living and a lack of natural experiences. The contributors to this volume provide insights into a more complex understanding of urban nature and of children’s experiences of urban nature. What is learned if nature is not somewhere else but right here, wherever we are? What does it mean for children’s environmental learning if nature is a relationship and not an entity? How can such a relational understanding of urban nature and childhood support more sustainable and more inclusive urban living? In raising challenging questions about childhoods and urban nature, this book will stimulate much needed discussion to provoke new imaginings for researchers in environmental education, childhood studies, and urban studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places

2016-09-22
Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places

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  • Author: David Blundell
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1472581490
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

How do we understand children and young people's lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices? Can the geographical concepts of space, place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors? This book draws on a rich and growing academic literature concerned with the spatiality of childhood and the spaces and places in which children live, learn, work, and play. It examines changing ways of seeing space, place and environment and how these can promote rethinking about children's lives across local and global scales. In common with other texts in the “New Childhoods” series, it asks for a reappraisal of modernity's assumptions about childhood and for a move towards full participation of children and young people in matters that concern us all. Combining critical discussion of theory with examples drawn from research, Rethinking Children's Spaces and Places offers readers a language to facilitate rethinking and catalyse active responses to the challenges of 21st-century childhoods.

Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education

2019-05-23
Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education

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  • Author: Fikile Nxumalo
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 042976412X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

This book draws attention to the urgent need for early childhood education to critically encounter and pedagogically respond to the entanglements of environmentally damaged places, anti-blackness, and settler colonial legacies. Drawing from the author’s multi-year participatory action research with educators and children in suburban settings, the book highlights Indigenous presences and land relations within ongoing settler colonialism as necessary, yet often ignored, aspects of environmental education. Chapters discuss topics such as: geotheorizing in a capitalist society, absences of Black place relations, and unsettling unquestioned Western assumptions about nature education. Rather than offer prescriptive solutions, this book works to broaden possibilities and bolster the conversation among teachers and scholars concerned with early years environmental education.

Children’s Literature in Place

2024-02-29
Children’s Literature in Place

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  • Author: Željka Flegar
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1003835082
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.

Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene

2022-11-15
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene

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  • Author: Peter Kraftl
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1538153637
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people’s well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research

2017-12-12
Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research

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  • Author: Jeanne Marie Iorio
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315297353
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

Meaning Making in Early Childhood Research asks readers to rethink research in early childhood education through qualitative research practices reflective of arts-based pedagogies. This collection explores how educators and researchers can move toward practices of meaning making in early childhood education. The text’s narrative style provides an intimate portrait of engaging in research that challenges assumptions and thinking in a variety of international contexts, and each chapter offers a way to engage in meaning making based on the experiences of young children, their families, and educators.