Diversity and difference in early childhood education : issues for theory and practice /
Gives an overview of relevant contemporary social theories, including poststructuralism, cultural studies, postcolonialism, feminist perspectives and queer theory. This book covers a number of issues impacting on children's lives, including globalization, new racisms, immigration, refugees, hom...
| Основен автор: | Robinson, Kerry H. |
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| Други автори: | Jones-Diaz, Criss. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkshire, England ; New York :
Open University Press,
2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=234084 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version.:
Diversity and difference in early childhood education. |
Съдържание:
- 1. Changing paradigms in early childhood education : critical perspectives on diversity and difference in doing social justice in early childhood education
- Introduction
- Writing this book
- Children's perceptions of difference
- Constructions of childhood
- Hierarchies of difference : early childhood educators, diversity and social justice
- Shifting paradigms in early childhood education : a historical overview
- What is postmodernism?
- What is poststructuralism?
- A feminist poststructural approach
- Other social theories influencing this book
- Chapter overviews
- Recommended reading
- 2. Doing feminist poststructuralist theory with early childhood educators
- Introduction
- What is feminist poststructuralism?
- Understanding the 'self' : the feminist poststructuralist subject
- The process of subjectification
- What has all this got to do with teaching children?
- Implications for practice in early childhood education
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading
- 3. Local and global social relations : critical perspectives on class and inequality
- Introduction
- What is globalization?
- Class relations and cultural reproduction in a globalized world
- Neoliberalism and globalization
- Relationships between globalization and neoliberalism
- Education, globalization and neoliberalism
- Globalization and forced immigration
- Asylum seekers and refugees
- Corporatization of childhood
- Macro-economic policies and their impact on children and childhood
- Implications for early childhood education
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading.
- 4. 'It's more than black dolls and brown paint' : critical multiculturalism, whiteness and early childhood education
- Introduction
- Multiculturalism as policy and practice
- Limits to multicultural pluralism
- Whiteness and multiculturalism
- Whiteness and indigeneity
- Multiculturalism and early childhood education
- Liberal pluralism in early childhood education
- Whiteness and mainstream early childhood curricula
- Practitioners' responses to children's understandings of 'race', ethnicity and cultural difference
- Assumed absences and invisible identities
- Children's experiences of whiteness, racism and inequality
- Rubie and Martin : a cast study
- Towards critical multiculturalism in early childhood education : implications for practice
- Going beyond culture as 'celebration'
- Adopting a reflexive stance towards cultural and racial differences
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading
- 5. Families as performative social spaces : reconceptualizing the family for social justice
- Introduction
- What is a family?
- Reconceptualizing family as performative social spaces : a feminist poststructuralist perspective
- Changing practices in a changing world : current challenges to families
- Social theories of 'the family'
- The social construction of motherhood and fatherhood
- Families of 'choice' : doing family differently
- Families from non-English-speaking backgrounds
- The impact of globalization on doing family
- The position and 'role' of children in families
- Implications for practice in early childhood education
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading.
- 6. Bilingualism identity and English as a globalized language
- Introduction
- English as a globalized language
- Learning English at the expense of the home language
- Towards critical understandings of equity in language retention and language learning
- Research into staff practices and attitudes towards language retention and second language learning issues
- Constructing the deficit 'needy' bilingual child
- Bilingual children's negotiation of languages and identity
- Implications for practice
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading
- 7. Gender performativity in early childhood education
- Introduction
- What is gender? : a feminist poststructuralist perspective
- Sex roles and socialization theory : a critique
- 'Biology is destiny' : the discourse of biological determinism, a critique
- A glimpse of educators' perspectives on gender
- Current approaches to gender equity in early childhood education
- The heterosexualization of gender : Butler's performativity and 'heterosexual matrix'
- Heterosexualization and heteronormativity in early childhood education
- Liberatory potentials of non-normative discourses of gender
- Implications for practices in early childhood education
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading.
- 8. The lion, the witch and the 'closet' : dealing with sexual identity issues in early childhood education
- Introduction
- Feminist poststructuralism and sexual identities
- Queer theory and sexual identity
- Other theoretical perspectives on sexual identity
- Discourses of childhood and sexuality
- What is heteronormativity?
- Heteronormativity in early childhood education
- Myths about gay and lesbian people
- Homophobia and heterosexism in early childhood settings
- Out of sight, out of mind : 'compulsory heterosexuality' and the invisibility of sexual others
- The inclusion of sexual others : legitimating difference within 'the family'
- What about children's voices?
- Implications for practice in early childhood education
- Conclusion
- Recommended reading
- 9. The challenge of diversity and difference to early childhood education
- Introduction
- Promoting theoretical understandings of childhood, diversity and difference
- Positioning children and families within discourses of deficit
- Fostering children's critical thinking around diversity and difference
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Developing inclusive policies and procedures around diversity and difference
- Communicating with families and communities
- The role of management bodies
- The importance of professional development for early childhood educators
- Further research into diversity and difference in early childhood education
- Conclusion : taking personal and professional risks for social justice
- Glossary.