1st Edition

Young Children's Community Building in Action Embodied, Emplaced and Relational Citizenship

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking the concepts of citizenship and community in relation to young children, this groundbreaking text examines the ways in which indigenous understandings and practices applied in early childhood settings in Australia and New Zealand encourage young children to demonstrate their care and concern for others and so, in turn, perceive themselves as part of a larger community. Young... Read more

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword – Michel Vandenbroeck

Preface – Locating Ourselves

Chapter One: Community building, citizenship, colonisation and globalisation

Chapter Two: Children and childhood in discourses at play in Australia and New Zealand

Chapter Three: Decolonising methodologies with children and community

Chapter Four: Gundoo community and how Gundoo children show community building

Chapter Five: Katoa community and children’s community building at Katoa Kindergarten

Chapter Six: Environments and pedagogies for children’s community building

Chapter Seven: Challenges for policy and practice for young children’s community building

Index

Biography

Louise Gwenneth Phillips is an early childhood and arts education academic at the School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Jenny Ritchie is an Associate Professor in Te Puna Akopai, the School of Education, at Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Lavina Dynevor is a proud Wakka Wakka woman and passionate Aboriginal early childhood educator and mentor in Australia.

Jared Lambert is Head Teacher at Berhampore Kindergarten, He Whanau Manaaki o Tararua, Wellington, New Zealand.

Kerryn Moroney is a proud Luritja woman who promotes equitable early childhood education systems in Australia.