Unsettling the colonial places and spaces of early childhood education / edited by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Affrica Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica, editor.

Taylor, Affrica, editor.

Series:

Changing images of early childhood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Social aspects.

Early childhood education.

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

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 post-colonial 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 Unsettling Places 19

1 Forest Stories: Restorying Encounters with "Natural" Places in Early Childhood Education / Fikile Nxumalo Nxumalo, Fikile 21

2 Unsettling Pedagogies through Common World Encounters: Grappling with (Post-)Colonial Legacies in Canadian Forests and Australian Bushlands / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica, Affrica Taylor Taylor, Affrica 43

3 The Fence as Technology of (Post-)Colonial Childhood in Contemporary Australia / Kerith Power Power, Kerith, Margaret Somerville Somerville, Margaret 63

Section 2 Unsettling Spaces 79

4 Troubling Settlerness in Early Childhood Curriculum Development / Emily Ashton Ashton, Emily 81

5 Te Whariki in Aotearoa New Zealand: Witnessing and Resisting Neo-liberal and Neo-colonial Discourses in Early Childhood Education / Marek Tesar Tesar, Marek 98

6 Mapping Settler Colonialism and Early Childhood Art / Vanessa Clark Clark, Vanessa 114

7 Teaching in the Borderlands: Stories from Texas / Julia C. Persky Persky, Julia C., Radhika Viruru Viruru, Radhika 127

Section 3 Unsettling Indigenous/Settler Relations 145

8 Disentangling? Re-entanglement? Tackling the Pervasiveness of Colonialism in Early Childhood (Teacher) Education in Aotearoa / Jenny Ritchie Ritchie, Jenny 147

9 Unsettling Both-ways Approaches to Learning in Remote Australian Aboriginal Early Childhood Workforce Training / Lyn Fasoli Fasoli, Lyn, Rebekah Fanner Fanner, Rebekah 162

10 Unsettling Yarns: Reinserting Indigenous Architectures, Contemporary Dreamings, and Newcomer Belongings on Ngunnawal Country, Australia / Adam Duncan Duncan, Adam, Fran Dawning Dawning, Fran, Affrica Taylor Taylor, Affrica 176

11 Thinking with Land, Water, Ice, and Snow: A Proposal for Inuit Nunangat Pedagogy in the Canadian Arctic / Mary Caroline Rowan Rowan, Mary Caroline 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138779365

1138779369

9781138779372

1138779377

OCLC:

894936317