Diversity and Difference in Childhood: Issues for Theory and Practice

2. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-335-26364-6
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Educators and community-based professionals are often required to work with children and families from a range of diverse backgrounds. The second edition of this popular book goes beyond simplistic definitions of diversity, encouraging a much broader understanding and helping childhood educators and community-based professionals develop a critical disposition towards assumptions about children and childhood in relation to diversity, difference and social justice. As well as drawing on research, the book gives an overview of relevant contemporary social theories, including poststructuralism, cultural studies, critical theory, postcolonialism, critical ‘race’ theory, feminist perspectives and queer theory. It interrogates practice and explores opportunities and strategies for creating a more equitable environment, whilst covering key issues impacting on children’s lives, including: globalization, neoliberalism, new racisms, immigration, Indigeneity, refugees, homophobia, heterosexism and constructions of childhood. Each chapter provides an overview of the area of discussion, a focus on the implications for practice, and recommended readings.Providing insight into how social justice practices in childhood education and community-based service delivery can make a real difference in the lives of children, their families and communities, this is key reading for early childhood and primary educators, community-based professionals, university students and researchers.
“This thoughtful, topical book addresses a considerable range of diversity issues relevant to teacher educators, their students, and other professionals who work with children and their families within and beyond Australia. This timely second edition draws on the authors’ longstanding teacher education experiences, and their most recent research, to revisit the challenges of diversity and difference in children’s lives”.

Dr Valerie N. Podmore, former associate professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, New Zealand“The second edition of Robinson and Jones Díaz’s Diversity and Difference in Childhood is a thoroughly welcome addition to my list of key texts for students of early childhood and childhood studies. It provides a means from the outset for educating undergraduate students from within critical postmodern and post structural perspectives – thus orienting their views of and actions within their future professions towards critical and equitable practices that value difference rather than treat is as a problem to be solved.” Alexandra C. Gunn, Associate Dean (Teacher Education), University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand“This is the 21st century early childhood education text. Diversity and Difference in Childhood provides early childhood educators and scholars a powerful space for asking social justice questions in a profoundly innovative way."

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Ph.D., Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Canada

“This new edition of Diversity and Difference is both important and timely. Readers will find the new theoretical resources and additional chapters that have been included give the book a sense of enhanced rigour and its depth and breadth of coverage make it an ideal resource for a wide variety of interests and perspectives.”
Christine Woodrow, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, the Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University, Australia

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones-Diaz, Criss

Robinson, Kerry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Changing paradigms in childhood and using critical social theories to understand childhoodsChapter 2: Constructions of childhoodChapter 3: The changing nature of families in the 21st CenturyChapter 4: Social Class and Inequalities: deconstructing poverty and disadvantageChapter 5: Critical multiculturalism: policy and practiceChapter 6: Gender and post-feminism?Chapter 7: Sexuality: Children's sexual citizenshipChapter 8: IndigeneityChapter 9: Refugees and Asylum seekers Chapter 10: Languages, identities and bilingualism in childhood Chapter 11: Revisiting the challenges of diversity and difference for childhoods

Über Autor(innen)

Kerry Robinson is a professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Criss Jones Díaz is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia.