1st Edition

Young Children Becoming Curriculum Deleuze, Te Whāriki and curricular understandings

By Marg Sellers Copyright 2013
240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book contests a tradition and convention in educational thinking that dichotomises children and curriculum, by developing the notion of re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. By presenting an innovative research project, in which she worked with children to share their understandings of the internationally renowned Te Whāriki curriculum, Marg Sellers explores what the curriculum means to... Read more

Contents  Foreword  Acknowledgements  …preambling…  Mapping milieu(s)  Maps, figures, storyboards  Plateaus  Preceding echoes   Reconceiving curriculum  Children performing curriculum complexly   Children and childhood  Rhizo~mapping Play(ing)  Children playing rhizo~methodology  Becoming-child(ren) becoming-power-full  Materiality matters  Aftrwrdng  Notes  References  Index

Biography

Marg Sellers is a lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate early childhood teacher education programs in the School of Education at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

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