Doing Foucault in early childhood studies : applying poststructural ideas / Glenda MacNaughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacNaughton, Glenda.

Series:

Contesting early childhood

Contesting early childhood series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Poststructuralism.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

The theories and analyses of poststructural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. However, in recent years many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important, and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought poststructuralism to the classroom. The book covers such issues as: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth; mapping classroom meanings; tactics of rhizoanalysis.

Doing Focault in Early Childhood Studies includes case studies and examples taken from real situations and will be of interest to anyone studying or researching early childhood practice and policy.

Contents:

Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth

Confronting a 'will to truth': troubling truths of the child poststructurally

Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally

Deliberately practising for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis

Seeking the 'otherwise': re-meeting relations of 'race' in early childhood classroom histories

Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-236) and index.

ISBN:

0415320992

041532100X

OCLC:

56599644