Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: History, Pedagogy, and Liberation

ISBN-13: 9781137394415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 145 str.

Jenny Ruth Ritchie;Mere Skerrett

Opis

Since 1996 Aotearoa New Zealand has had a national early childhood curriculum, Te Wh riki, which validates the language and culture of the Indigenous M ori. This book provides two lenses into the history of early childhood care and education in Aotearoa, with a particular focus on M ori children and their famiiles, In elucidating the specific context of early childhood care and education in Aotearoa, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which the recent policy context has operated in an attempt to effect inclusion or exclusion of M ori epistemologies and pedagogies within both M ori initiatives such as Te K hanga Reo (a M ori immersion wh nau/family development movement), as well as 'whitestream' institutions, this book offers insight into struggles to provide culturally equitable provision to Indigenous young children."

Spis treści

Introduction Part A: Kaupapa M?ori Early Childhood Care and Education 1: Working with Deleuzian Theories in a Counter-colonial Project: Re-positioning M?ori language in Early Years Education 2: Policy and Inhibiters of Bicultural/Bilingual Advancement 3: Pedagogies . . . Part B: Indigenising 'Whitestream' Early Childhood Care and Education Practice in Aotearoa 4: Contextual Explorations Introduction Promises, promises . . . Te Tiriti and Te Wh?riki as ethical visions Settler assumption of sovereignty Progressive traditions 'Flaxroots' early childhood education and care services M?ori Pre-schools Chance to be equal Repositioning te Ao M?ori as central to education New right enmeshment with liberal social policies Neo-liberal discursive era References 5: Overviewing Documents Background Guidance from further Ministry of Education documents Shifts seen in recent research M?ori 'Beingness' as a source of potentiality Concluding thoughts 6: A counter-colonial pedagogy of affect in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand Background Methodology Data examples Conclusion Conclusion

O autorze

Author Jenny Ritchie: Jenny Ruth Ritchie is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand. Author Mere Skerrett: Mere Skerrett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.