1st Edition

Gender and Care with Young Children A Feminist Material Approach to Early Childhood Education

By B. Denise Hodgins Copyright 2019
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices. Drawing on a collaborative research study with early childhood educators and young children, the author examines what an engagement with human-and non-human relationality does to complicate conversations about gender and care. By employing a feminist material analysis of early childhood education, this book rethinks dominant Euro-Western individualist pedagogies in order to reposition them within a relationality framework. The analysis illuminates the political and ethical embeddedness of early childhood education and the understanding that gendering and caring emerge with/in a complex web of many relations.

    Part 1. Context stories



    Chapter 1. Curiosities



    Chapter 2. Pedagogical Narrations



    Chapter 3. Matternig threads, knots and black holes





    Part 2. Classroom stories



    Chapter 4. Knotty Doll Tales



    Chapter 5. Tangled Tales of Car(e)s





    Part 3. Invitations



    Chapter 6. Differently Curious, Differently Accountable

    Biography

    B. Denise Hodgins is the executive director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network in British Columbia, Canada, a founding member of the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory, and a member of the Common Worlds Research Collective. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada.