1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care
Understanding the place of religion in Early Childhood Education and Care is of critical importance for the development of cultural literacy and plays a key role in societal coherence and inclusion. This international handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the place of religion in the societal educational arenas of the very youngest children across the globe. Drawing together contributions from leading international experts across disciplinary backgrounds, it offers a critical view of how to approach the complexities around the place of religion in Early Childhood Education and Care.
Through its four parts, the book examines the theoretical, methodological, policy and practice perspectives and explores the complex intersections of transmission of "cultural heritage" and "national values" with the diverse, changing societal contexts. Each chapter contributes to an increased understanding of how the place of religion in Early Childhood Education and Care can be understood across continents, countries and educational systems.
The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care is an essential resource for academics, researchers, students and practitioners working in Early Childhood Education, Sociology of Childhood, Religious Education and other related fields
Chapter 1
The Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care
Arniika Kuusisto
Part I: THEORY
Chapter 2
The Re-Imagined Other: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education
Liam Francis Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto
Chapter 3
The Interaction of Religion and Culture as a Basis for Religious Education in Early Childhood Education: An Integrative/Integral Approach
Jari Ristiniemi
Chapter 4
Subjectification as an Educational Goal in Religious and Worldview Education in Early Childhood Education and Care
Saila Poulter and Katja Castillo
Chapter 5
Migrating Meanings and Pedagogical Profanation: An Educational Approach to Rituals and Traditions in Pre/Schools
Lovisa Bergdahl
Chapter 6
Ideal Caring Bodies: On the Intersections between Religion and Gender in ECEC
Anette Hellman
Chapter 7
Children’s Right to Religion and Religious Education: Access to Religious Education in Early Childhood as a Human Right
Friedrich Schweitzer
Chapter 8
Human Rights Issues Related Teaching Religion in Early Childhood Education – a Case from Denmark
Eva Lindhardt and Cecilia Decara
Chapter 9
Religious Education as a Societal Resource in Immigrant Societies: "Contact Zones" and "Safe Spaces" in Early Childhood Education
Kathrin Winkler
Chapter 10
Professional and Personal Values in the Role as Religious Educators in Kindergartens in Norway
Kathrine Moen
Chapter 11
The Evolved Developmental Niche and the Neurobiology of Spiritual Development
Mary S. Tarsha and Darcia Narvaez
Chapter 12
Is the Sand Alive? Posthuman Experimentation with/in South African Early Years Teacher Education
Karin Murris, Luzia Aparecida de Souza, Heloisa da Silva and Rose-Anne Reynolds
Part II: METHOD
Chapter 13
Childhood Research on (Religious) Diversity – Methodological Issues with a Focus on Ethnography
Helena Stockinger
Chapter 14
Religion and Worldviews in Early Childhood Education and Care: Eight Parameters for Ethical Research
Liam Francis Gearon, Saija Benjamin, Tuija Itkonen, Arto Kallioniemi and Arniika Kuusisto
Chapter 15
The Place of Religious and Non-religious Values and Beliefs in Identities of Mothers of Young Children: Methodological Approach and Empirical Evidence from the European Comparative Perspective
Lyudmila Nurse, Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků, Jana Obrovská, Katarzyna Gajek and Jérôme Mbiatong
Chapter 16
Studying the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education in German Kindergartens with Different Methods and Approaches
Alexandra Wörn and Golde Wissner
Chapter 17
Religious Research in the Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia: Empirical and Methodological Gaps
Susanne Garvis and Matthew Manning
Chapter 18
Conversation Analysis in Research on Children’s Ethical and Moral Decision-Making in ECEC
Melisa Stevanovic and Arniika Kuusisto
Part III: POLICY
Chapter 19
The Transformation of Child-Centered Religious Education in Prewar Japan
Hideko Omori
Chapter 20
Negotiating Children’s Gender and Religiosity: Stories from Indonesian Early Childhood Education
Vina Adriany
Chapter 21
A Journey into the Child’s Personal Religion: Spiritually Nurturing Practices in ECEC,with a Focus on the New Zealand National Curriculum Te Whāriki
Guneet Sachdev
Chapter 22
The Possible Role of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care in the Context of a Post-Communist Heritage in Hungary
Eszter Kodácsy-Simon
Chapter23
Early Childhood Worldview Education Transformations within the Competency-Based Curriculum in Latvia
Dzintra Iliško
Chapter 24
Lost in Translation: Religion in Policy versus Practice in Norway's Childhood Education
Kari Krogstad
Chapter 25
Learning in Non-denominational Post-secular Teaching on Religions for Young Children: Challenges and Possibilities
Olof Franck
Chapter 26
Understandings of Religion as Culture: Renegotiating Troublesome Concepts in Swedish ECEC Policy
Magdalena Raivio and Ellinor Skaremyr
Chapter 27
Ambiguity, Silence and Misalignment: The Place of Religion in Australia’s Early Childhood Education Curriculum Documents
Jan Grajczonek
Chapter 28
Developing Children's Life Orientation in ECEC: Curriculum Development Research Project in the Pillarised Dutch Society
Ina ter Avest
Chapter 29
Place of Religion and the Cuban ECEC
Maydel Angueira Gato
Part IV: PRACTICE
Chapter 30
On God, Gods, and Idols: How to Talk about Sieidi in Sámi ECEC Teacher Education
Lovisa Mienna Sjöberg
Chapter 31
The Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care in India
Kristian Niemi
Chapter 32
Early Childhood Education in Islam: The Cases of Turkey and Egypt
Ednan Aslan
Chapter 33
Responding to the Spiritual Dimension of Young Children in Kindergarten through Positive Silence
Adrian-Mario Gellel and Natalie Lombardi Calleja
Chapter 34
The Nurturing Triangle: Home, School and Church in Early Childhood Education – Reflections on the Experience in England and Wales
David W. Lankshear
Chapter 35
Spiritual and Religious Capabilities: A Possibility for How Early Childhood Catholic Religious Educators Can Address the Spirituality Needs of Children
Christine Robinson and Chris Hackett
Chapter 36
Religious Traditions in the Secularist Swedish preschool – Problems, Challenges, and Possibilities
Eva Reimers
Chapter 37
When Worldview Issues Are at Stake in Kindergartens: How Could Virtue Ethics Enhance Student-Teachers’ and Teachers’ Courage to Deal with Cases Concerning Religion and Other Worldviews in Kindergarten?
Svein Sando
Chapter 38
Religion and Religiosity as Sensitive Issues in Swedish Preschools
Tünde Puskás and Anita Andersson
Chapter 39
Education and Ethnic-Religious Conflicts in the V Altos Tsotsil-Tseltal Intercultural Region of Chiapas, Mexico
Iván de Jesús Espinosa Torres and Leticia Pons Bonals
Chapter 40
Religious Plurality in Austrian Early Childhood Education: Children’s Establishments as Places for Empowerment beyond Binary Coding
Bettina Brandstetter
Chapter 41
Open Conclusion
Arniika Kuusisto
Biography
Arniika Kuusisto is Professor in Child and Youth Studies, especially Early Childhood Education and Care, at Stockholm University, Sweden; Research Director at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.
