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Unsettling the colonial places and spaces of early childhood education /

Contributor(s): Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica [editor.] | Taylor, Affrica [editor.].
Series: Changing images of early childhood: Publisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Description: x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781138779365; 9781138779365:; 1138779369; 9781138779372; 1138779377.Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Social aspects | Postcolonialism -- Social aspects | Critical pedagogyDDC classification: 372.21
Contents:
Series editor's introduction -- Introduction : unsettling the colonial places and spaces of Early Childhood Education in settler colonial societies / Affrica Taylor and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw -- Forest stories : restorying encounters with 'natural' places in Early Childhood Education / Fikile Nxumalo -- Unsettling pedagogies through common world encounters : grappling with (post)colonial legacies in Canadian forests and Australian bushlands / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Affrica Taylor -- The fence as technology of (post)colonial childhood in contemporary Australia / Kerith Power and Margaret Somerville -- Troubling settlerness in Early Childhood curriculum development / Emily Ashton -- Te Whāriki in Aotearoa New Zealand : witnessing and resisting Neoliberal and Neo-colonial discourses in Early Childhood Education / Marek Tesar -- Mapping settler colonialism and Early Childhood art / Vanessa Clark -- Teaching in the borderlands : stories from Texas / Julia C. Persky and Radhika Viruru -- Dis-entangling? Re-entanglement? Tackling the pervasiveness of colonialism in early childhood (teacher) education in Aotearoa / Jenny Ritchie -- Unsettling both-ways approaches to learning in remote Australian Aboriginal early childhood workforce training / Lyn Fasoli and Rebekah Farmer -- Unsettling yarns : reinscribing indigenous architectures, contemporary Dreamings and newcomer belongings on Ngunnawal country, Australia / Adam Duncan, Fran Dawning and Affrica Taylor -- Thinking with land, water, ice, and snow : a proposal for Inuit Nunangat pedagogy in the Canadian Arctic / Mary Caroline Rowan.
Summary: This volume 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, it reveals how early childhood education is implicated in the colonialist project of predominantly immigrant (post)colonial settler societies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editor's introduction -- Introduction : unsettling the colonial places and spaces of Early Childhood Education in settler colonial societies / Affrica Taylor and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw -- Forest stories : restorying encounters with 'natural' places in Early Childhood Education / Fikile Nxumalo -- Unsettling pedagogies through common world encounters : grappling with (post)colonial legacies in Canadian forests and Australian bushlands / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Affrica Taylor -- The fence as technology of (post)colonial childhood in contemporary Australia / Kerith Power and Margaret Somerville -- Troubling settlerness in Early Childhood curriculum development / Emily Ashton -- Te Whāriki in Aotearoa New Zealand : witnessing and resisting Neoliberal and Neo-colonial discourses in Early Childhood Education / Marek Tesar -- Mapping settler colonialism and Early Childhood art / Vanessa Clark -- Teaching in the borderlands : stories from Texas / Julia C. Persky and Radhika Viruru -- Dis-entangling? Re-entanglement? Tackling the pervasiveness of colonialism in early childhood (teacher) education in Aotearoa / Jenny Ritchie -- Unsettling both-ways approaches to learning in remote Australian Aboriginal early childhood workforce training / Lyn Fasoli and Rebekah Farmer -- Unsettling yarns : reinscribing indigenous architectures, contemporary Dreamings and newcomer belongings on Ngunnawal country, Australia / Adam Duncan, Fran Dawning and Affrica Taylor -- Thinking with land, water, ice, and snow : a proposal for Inuit Nunangat pedagogy in the Canadian Arctic / Mary Caroline Rowan.

This volume 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, it reveals how early childhood education is implicated in the colonialist project of predominantly immigrant (post)colonial settler societies.

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