Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education

Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education
ISBN-10
042976412X
ISBN-13
9780429764127
Category
Education
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2019-05-23
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Fikile Nxumalo

Description

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.

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