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

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... Read more

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.