1st Edition

Multiple Early Childhood Identities

Edited By Andi Salamon, Angela Chng Copyright 2019
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Recognising multiple cultural, ethical and geographical influences which impact on the development of a child’s identity, this insightful text explores the role of early childhood practitioners and settings in nurturing and navigating the child’s sense of being and belonging.   Multiple Early Childhood Identies confronts the diverse factors which influence early identity-formation to... Read more

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About the Series Editors and Contributors

Preface: Finding purpose and direction - Michael Reed and Alma Fleet

Acknowledgments

SECTION ONE: Being alongside children

Chapter 1: Surviving in a post conflict zone: Through the eyes of young children - Nanditha Hettitantri

Chapter 2: The ‘troublemakers’: Emerging reflections on the identities of young children living on the streets of Mumbai, India - Zinnia Mevawalla

Chapter 3: Seeing through Pedagogical Documentation - Angela Chng

Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking - Angela Chng

SECTION TWO: Those who educate

Chapter 4: Interwoven identities in infant and toddler education and care: "What do you think babies will do with clay? Make pots?!" - Tina Stratigos and Andi Salamon

Chapter 5: Peeling away the red apple: Seeing anew images shaping teachers’ identities - Leanne Lavina

Chapter 6 The role of the reflective activist in nurturing children’s learner identity - Karen Appleby, Karen Hanson, with Emma Bailey, Colin Barr, and Samuel Proctor

Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking

Andi Salamon

SECTION THREE: Embedding families and communities

Chapter 7: Identity as catalyst, childhood as context: Family, school & community collaborations for a situated early childhood pedagogy - Rebecca S. New

Chapter 8: "You look like a boy": Narratives of gender and implications for early childhood pedagogy - Lorraine Madden

Chapter 9: Malaysian-Chinese parents’ negotiation of identities as their children begin early childhood education and care in Malaysia and Australia - Shi Jing Voon

Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking - Andi Salamon

SECTION FOUR: Working with systems

Chapter 10: Exploring constructions of children’s identity and childhood in the global South from a policy perspective - Lynn Ang

Chapter 11: Looking back in anger: The impact of domestic violence and abuse on the mother and child relationship - Claire Majella Richards

Chapter 12 How Muslim women negotiate systems of motherhood in two cultures - Radhika Viruru & Nazneen Askari

Editorial provocations: Engaging readers and extending thinking - Angela Chng

Coda: Thinking forward - Alma Fleet and Michael Reed

Index

Biography

Andi Salamon lectures in Early Childhood Education and Care at Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Angela Chng is Head, Professional Practices and Development for NTUC First Campus, Singapore.