Children and the Power of Stories Posthuman and Autoethnographic Perspectives in Early Childhood Education

This book explores how stretching stories through posthuman and autoethnographic perspectives can produce new stories that decolonialize traditional thinking and approaches to Early Childhood Education (ECE). It demonstrates how stories can provide a different way of knowing, and a way of knowing di...

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Other Authors: Blyth, Carmen (Editor), Aslanian, Teresa K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book explores how stretching stories through posthuman and autoethnographic perspectives can produce new stories that decolonialize traditional thinking and approaches to Early Childhood Education (ECE). It demonstrates how stories can provide a different way of knowing, and a way of knowing differently: a way of decolonializing current discourses of early childhood education within educational institutions. The book uses research and practice in ECE to act as a canvas, a context with which to explore how autoethnography can become other when viewed through a posthumanist lens. As a consequence the chapters and stories within allow for an interplay between the posthumanist and the autoethnographic, an interplay that allows for a very specific type of meaning to emerge; a meaning that traffics in numerous and disruptive possibilities rather than settled certainties. In so doing, authors rethink and perturb the notion of child-centered approaches to knowing, be(com)ing, anddoing within the Early Childhood Education
Physical Description:XXII, 151 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789811692871