{"title":"Early Childhood Educators’ Understandings of How Young Children Perform Gender During Unstructured Play","authors":"Sarah Reddington","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019142","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Sarah Reddington is an assistant professor in the Child and Youth Study Department at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research in the field of critical gender and disability studies is concerned with the relationship between early childhood education practices and how Westernized forms of representation impact children’s subjectivities and life courses. Sarah’s work engages with poststructural thinking, affect theory, posthumanism, Deleuzoguattarian theory, queer theory, diffraction, and new materialism to challenge the conditions of marginalization and oppression. Email: Sarah.Reddington@msvu.ca","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45939986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culturally Responsive Indigeneity of Relations","authors":"Lori Huston, Elder Brenda Mason, Roxanne Loon","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019203","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws on the traditional sharing circle at the SPARK conference held at the University of British Columbia in 2019. The sharing circle was led by an Elder and two early childhood educators sharing knowledge from their perspectives and experiences of the Anishininiiwi Awaashishiiw Kihkinohamaakewi Niikaanihtamaakew Indigenous Early Childhood Education Leadership Program (IECELP). The sharing circle at SPARK was delivered in the Indigenous research method of a wildfire circle consistent with the summative research conducted across four First Nation child care centres to measure the impact of the IECELP. We propose alternative ways of transferring knowledge in Indigenous culturally responsive ways to be welcomed and encouraged in academia and in early childhood education.","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46895815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Hodgins, Narda Nelson, Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, Xiaofeng Ke, Rosalind Turcotte
{"title":"Living Speculative Pedagogies as Boundary-Crossing Dialogues","authors":"B. Hodgins, Narda Nelson, Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, Xiaofeng Ke, Rosalind Turcotte","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019126","url":null,"abstract":"B. Denise Hodgins is deputy director of the British Columbia Early Childhood Pedagogy Network (ECPN) and lead researcher and pedagogist at University of Victoria (UVic) Child Care Services. Her work is rooted in feminist material theoretical perspectives, which she explores in her books Gender and Care with Young Children: A Feminist Material Approach to Early Childhood Education (2019) and the edited collection Feminist Research for 21st-Century Childhoods: Common Worlds Methods (2019), chapters in edited books, and articles in various journals. Denise is a member of the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory and the Common Worlds Research Collective. Email: dhodgins@uvic.ca","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43269926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating Reconceptualist and Feminist Ethics of Care Scholarship to Find a Conceptual Space for Rethinking Children’s Needs in Early Childhood Education","authors":"R. Langford","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019308","url":null,"abstract":"Rachel Langford is a professor emeritus in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University. From 2006 to 2016 she served as the School’s director. Her research and scholarly work focus on childcare advocacy and policy development, workforce professionalization, and conceptualizations of care and caregiving in early childhood education. She is the lead editor of the UBC Press publication Caring for Children: Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada (2017) and the editor of a Bloomsbury Academic Education Press edited volume, Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice: Possibilities and Dangers (2019). Email: rlangfor@ryerson.ca","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42268284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Disrupted During Storytime: Critical Literacy in Early Childhood","authors":"Cayley Burton","doi":"10.18357/jcs00018978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00018978","url":null,"abstract":"Storytime plays an instrumental role in Western early childhood education (ECE). According to Crisp and Hiller (2011), “a primary means of transmitting cultural values from one generation to the next is through the telling of stories and, in the United States [as in Canada], this commonly comes in the form of children’s literature” (p. 197). Storytelling through picture books is used to teach children about social norms and boundaries, including regulations and expectations about gender performance, identity, and expression. Although picture books are diverse in content and representations of reality, influential messages about gender are imparted through the sharing of stories. In this way, gender is a story in and of itself through which children are socialized. Legacies of what I refer to as the Victorian sex-gender binary (VSGB) continue to shape cultural understandings of gender today. A bodily linkage, the VSGB refers to the medicalized and social processes of categorizing children as gendered. Since the Victorian era (1837–1901), binary sex designation at birth (as male or female) carries with it social expectations for binary gender identity (as a boy or girl) expressed in a binary way (masculine or feminine). However, the boundaries of social constructs like the VSGB are limiting for children who do not identify with— nor experience their bodies according to—dichotomies of sex or gender. Featuring picture books about gendernonconforming characters during storytime therefore makes ECE more inclusive, and empowering, of gender diversity.","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41295935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Thinking with/in/through Binaries and Boundaries: Sparking Necessary and Ongoing Conversations in Early Childhood Education","authors":"I. Berger, Nancy van Groll, Áurea Vericat Rocha","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44054125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wrestling with “Will to Truth” in Early Childhood Education: Cracking Spaces for Multiplicity and Complexity Through Poetry","authors":"Chenying Wang","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019206","url":null,"abstract":"Listen to an early learning classroom, a room filled with laughter, giggles, and squabbles over toys. Watch your step in an early learning classroom, a floor where crawling kids chase light-up shoes worn by running kids. Pay attention to an early learning classroom, a space where multiple pots of aromatic plants thrive, where a puddle of spilled milk is drying. Then, feel an early learning classroom. Put yourself in this room as an early childhood educator, so that you can feel how this room is calling on you to respond—to what you hear, see, smell, and feel— carefully and thoughtfully.","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46829051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researching the Moral Experiences of Young Children: A Pilot Study","authors":"N. Makansi, F. Carnevale","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019910","url":null,"abstract":"Nora Nader Makansi holds an undergraduate degree in dentistry. She completed her master’s and doctoral studies in the Division of Oral Health and Society at McGill University’s Faculty of Dentistry. Later, Nora joined the VOICE (Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics) project in January 2015 as a postdoctoral trainee working with Drs. Franco Carnevale and Mary Ellen Macdonald. Through her doctoral and postdoctoral training, Nora developed her research experience in qualitative and mixed methods research. She is currently a research associate and lecturer with the Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University. She is also involved as an instructor in the faculty’s annual summer institute on innovative research methodologies. Email: nora.makansi@mcgill.ca","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41327108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Research Journey with Plains Cree Elders Regarding Their Image of the Child","authors":"J. Tine","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019909","url":null,"abstract":"Janine Tine is a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta. Her early childhood research interests include bicultural childhoods, parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by intercultural couples, and Indigenous conceptions of childhood. Prior to completing her master’s degree at the U of A, Janine taught grade 2 for six years and gifted education for three. She has a Post-Degree Certificate in Education from the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) and a Bachelor of Education from the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program at the U of S. Email: akerman@ualberta.ca","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48310609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Colin Heywood’s Childhood in Modern Europe","authors":"Sabiha Didar Tutan","doi":"10.18357/jcs00019913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019913","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood in Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 280 pp.) is a meaningful contribution by Colin Heywood to the textbook series “New Approaches to European History.” The book clearly introduces and explores the major themes and problems in the history of childhood studies in Europe. The work brings together existing studies of childhood across Europe and adopts a comparative approach; its scope includes the Mediterranean regions, Russia, Western Europe, and the Nordic countries, although northwestern Europe is its primary focus. Heywood also considers the interaction with the United States, the imperial conquests, and mass migratory movements where relevant. The book’s take on these issues does not aim to be comprehensive or partial; it mostly covers these issues practically and to the extent that they had repercussions for either children’s lives or children’s studies. However, I found it useful for contextualizing these changes in a wider context. For instance, Heywood acknowledges how the increased cultural influence of the United States in the 20th century was welcomed in some ways and resented in others rather than making an overarching case for how the United States was perceived independent of context.","PeriodicalId":42983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Childhood Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42755200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}