Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education (Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education)
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- Synopsis
- This book draws attention to the urgent need for early childhood education to critically encounter and pedagogically respond to the entanglements of environmentally damaged places, anti-blackness, and settler colonial legacies. Drawing from the author’s multi-year participatory action research with educators and children in suburban settings, the book highlights Indigenous presences and land relations within ongoing settler colonialism as necessary, yet often ignored, aspects of environmental education. Chapters discuss topics such as: geotheorizing in a capitalist society, absences of Black place relations, and unsettling unquestioned Western assumptions about nature education. Rather than offer prescriptive solutions, this book works to broaden possibilities and bolster the conversation among teachers and scholars concerned with early years environmental education.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 160 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780429764110
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780429427480, 9781138384545, 9781138384545, 9781138384538, 9781138384538
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 06/07/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Taylor and Francis
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.