Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education

ISBN-13: 9781032075648 / Twarda / 2023 / 234 str.

Opis

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Gender and sexuality in Global South early childhood education  2. “He calls me babe, he says I’m sexy”: Girls, boys, and sexualities in the early years  3. “No! We definitely don’t teach that sort of thing”: Teachers and the childhood-sexuality assemblage in South Africa  4. Beauty in Kainat (the universe): Discourses of heterosexuality in Pakistan’s early childhood classrooms  5. Gender and sexuality in Brazilian early childhood education  6. “The pole is sacred”: Disciplining sexuality in teaching pole dance to Brazilian children  7. “Macho males and puppy crushes”: Teachers and the interplay of masculinity in the early years of primary schooling  8. When nature calls: How male teachers negotiate gender and care work in early childhood education  9. “Females are still the king”: Men can’t handle teaching young children  10. Autoethnographic explorations of the impacts of cultural and gender conventions that frame childhood  11. Heteronormativity in a Chinese sexuality education textbook series: The case of Cherish Lives

O autorze

Deevia Bhana is DSI/NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research examines gender and sexuality across the young life course focusing on femininities, masculinities, inequalities, reproduction, health, violence and education.

 

Yuwei Xu is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. With a PhD in gender and early childhood studies gained from the University of Glasgow, Yuwei’s research interests include gender and men’s participation in early childhood education, child agency, 0-3 curriculum, child-centered pedagogy, parenting and family relationships, play-based pedagogy, and teacher professional development.

 

Vina Adriany is Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education and Gender at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia. Her research interest includes gender and social justice in early years setting, construction of children and childhood among marginalized communities, as well as the impact of neo-liberalism in education.