Inside the 'Inclusive' Early Childhood Classroom: The Power of the 'Normal'

ISBN-13: 9781433134326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 212 str.

Karen Watson

Opis

Inside the "Inclusive" Childhood Classroom: The Power of the "Normal" offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Questioning My 'Truth' about Inclusion - Troubling Inclusion: Policy and Practice - Doing Poststructural Ethnography Inside the 'Inclusive' Classroom - Exploring the Production, Reproduction and Maintenance of the 'Normal' - Exploring the Role of Non-Human Actors in the Production and Maintenance of the 'Normal' - Disrupting Tolerance as a Practice - Nuanced Silences and Their Effects - Fear, Separation and Asylum-Like Practices - Rethinking 'Inclusive' Practice: Shifting the Focus - Index.

O autorze

Karen Watson is Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her more than 30 years of teaching experience in a variety of contexts, including early childhood classrooms and early intervention services, inspired her PhD research on inclusive practice. Awarded her doctorate in 2015, she is interested in how young children actively negotiate difference in their everyday encounters with each other.