ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief introduction to Sikh religious heritage. It discusses the particular blend of ideas, cultural values and dispositions guiding this British Sikh-led nursery project. The chapter explains the ways in which the day-to-day communicative and semiotic practices of the nursery practitioners were contributing to the configuring of the hybridised relational and material world of the nursery. It summarises how the interactional configurations of day-to-day practice endeavours to realise a vision to foster family-like and dispositions-rich spaces for children's early learning and socialisation. The chapter shows the day-to-day world at the Nishkam nursery was a newly hybridised figured world, where identities, artefacts and communicative and semiotic practices from the different worlds of home, school and community overlapped. In the case of the Nishkam nursery, it involved a community of practice reflecting on what they described as their shared religious and cultural 'mooring' in the world, so as to develop and contribute ideas and approaches.
