Drawing from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict that takes into account relationships between the individual and society, this text considers how race, class, gender and age interact with daily domestic practice to produce parent-child conflict.

Both traditional and progressive curricula are inadequate for the task of responding to the economic, political, social, and cultural changes that have occurred as a result of globalization. This book documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving, and ultimately transforming, early childhood practice in these changed and changing times. The authors do not simply critique developmental approaches or the increasing standardization of the field. Instead, they describe how they are playing around with postmodern ideas in practice and...