Bewildering early childhood ‘pioneers’
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Osgood, J., Archer, N., Albin-Clark, J. and Mohandas, S. 2024. Bewildering early childhood ‘pioneers’ . Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 32 (4). https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2355096
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Title | Bewildering early childhood ‘pioneers’ |
Authors | Osgood, J., Archer, N., Albin-Clark, J. and Mohandas, S. |
Abstract | Familiarity with ‘the pioneers’ of early childhood is deemed essential knowledge for anyone seeking to understand how contemporary conceptualisations of child/hood have come about, how children are positioned in relation to adults, and how ideas circulate about the ways children behave, learn, interact and find their place in the world. We place ‘(the) pioneer(s)’ in inverted commas precisely because the concept of pioneering is contested and deeply problematic. This Special Issue is committed to critically considering precisely what ‘pioneer’ means in the context of early childhood. Inspired by Snaza’s (2013) proposition to bewilder ‘the pioneers’, this Special Issue pursues ideas about early childhood that are not shaped by, and founded upon Western imaginaries of child/hood/s. Bewildering is a concept and practice that actively disrupts the colonial connotations and implications of ‘the pioneer’, as a civilizing force heading into the wilderness, to prepare the way for the production of certain sorts of humans. |
Keywords | Early Childhood; Pioneers; Decolonising |
Sustainable Development Goals | 10 Reduced inequalities |
4 Quality education | |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Pedagogy, Culture and Society |
ISSN | 1468-1366 |
Electronic | 1747-5104 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 20 May 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 09 Apr 2024 |
Deposited | 20 May 2024 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Pedagogy, Culture & Society. Osgood, J. (2024). Bewildering early childhood ‘pioneers.’ Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2355096. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2024.2355096 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:001228174900001 |
Language | English |
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