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Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education
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ABSTRACT
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 postcolonial 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Introduction: Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education in Settler Colonial Societies
part |2 pages
Section 1 Unsettling Places
chapter 1|22 pages
Forest Stories: Restorying Encounters with “Natural” Places in Early Childhood Education
chapter 2|20 pages
Unsettling Pedagogies through Common World Encounters: Grappling with (Post-)Colonial Legacies in Canadian Forests and Australian Bushlands
chapter 3|16 pages
The Fence as Technology of (Post-)Colonial Childhood in Contemporary Australia
part |2 pages
Section 2 Unsettling Spaces
chapter 4|17 pages
Troubling Settlerness in Early Childhood Curriculum Development
chapter 5|16 pages
Te Whāriki in Aotearoa New Zealand: Witnessing and Resisting Neo-liberal and Neo-colonial Discourses in Early Childhood Education
part |2 pages
Section 3 Unsettling Indigenous/Settler Relations