Doing Foucault in early childhood studies : applying poststructural ideas / Glenda Mac Naughton.
By: MacNaughton, Glenda
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BookSeries: Contesting early childhood series: Publisher: London : Routledge, 2005Description: x, 244 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 041532100X; 9780415321006; 9780415320993.Subject(s): Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 | Early childhood education | Early childhood education -- Philosophy | Poststructuralism | Education | Education | Pre-school & kindergartenDDC classification: 372.21 MAC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 372.21 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38888000821177 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to the classroom. The book covers such issues as:
becoming post-structurally reflective about truth mapping classroom meanings tactics of rhizoanalysis becoming again in critically-knowing communities.Case-studies and examples taken from real situations are used and will be of interest to anyone studying or researching early childhood practice and policy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth -- Confronting a "will to truth": troubling truths of the child poststructurally -- Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally -- Deliberately practicing for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis -- Seeking the "otherwise": re-meeting relations of "race" in early childhood classroom histories -- Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities.
This book shows the important contribution that Foucault and other poststructural theorists can make to research and practice in early childhood.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Introduction: beyond quality, towards activism (p. 1)
- 1 Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth (p. 19)
- 2 Confronting a 'will to truth': troubling truths of the child poststructurally (p. 42)
- 3 Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally (p. 75)
- 4 Deliberately practising for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis (p. 119)
- 5 Seeking the 'Otherwise': re-meeting relations of 'race' in early childhood classroom histories (p. 146)
- 6 Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities (p. 188)
- Appendix Research project summaries (p. 214)
- Bibliography (p. 218)