Early childhood education in Aotearoa, New Zealand : history, pedagogy, and liberation / Jenny Ritchie and Mere Skerrett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part A. Kaupapa Māori Early Childhood Care and Education : -- 1. Working with Deleuzian Theories in a Counter-colonial Project: -- Re-positioning Māori 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 Whāriki as ethical visions -- Settler assumption of sovereignty -- Progressive traditions -- 'Flaxroots' early childhood education and care services -- Māori Pre-schools -- Chance to be equal -- Repositioning te Ao Māori 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 -- Māori '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.

Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Maori culture, this book investigates the ensuing practices, policies, and dilemmas that have arisen and provides a wealth of data on how truly culturally inclusive education might look.