Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies Applying Post-Structural Ideas [Hardcover]

The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to the classroom. The book covers such issues as:

• becoming post-structurally reflective about truth
• mapping classroom meanings
• tactics of rhizoanalysis
• becoming again in critically-knowing communities.

Case-studies and examples taken from real situations are used and will be of interest to anyone studying or researching early childhood practice and policy.

1. Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth 2. Confronting a 'will to truth': troubling truths of the child poststructurally 3. Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally 4. Deliberately practicing for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis 5. Seeking the 'Otherwise': re-meeting relations of 'race' in early childhood classroom histories 6. Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities'Provides much interesting and thought provoking reading.'- Early YearsGlenda Mac Naughton is Associate Professor in Early Childhood and Director of the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, the University of Melbourne.