Unsettling the colonial places and spaces of early childhood education / edited by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Affrica Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. - Unsettling Places -- Section 2. - Unsettling Spaces -- Section 3. - Unsettling Indigenous- Non-Indigenous Relations -- --

Introduction: Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education in Settler Colonial Societies / Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria -- -- Section 1. - Unsettling Places -- 1. Forest Stories: Restorying Encounters with 'Natural' Places in Early Childhood Education / Fikile Nxumalo, University of Victoria -- 2. Unsettling pedagogies through common world encounters: Grappling with (post)colonial legacies in Canadian forests and Australian bushlands / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria and Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra -- 3. The fence as technology of (post)colonial childhood in contemporary Australia / Kerith Power, University of Western Sydney and Margaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney -- -- Section 2. - Unsettling Spaces -- 4. Troubling Settlerness in Early Childhood Curriculum Development / Emily Ashton, University of Victoria -- 5. Te Whāriki in Aotearoa New Zealand: Witnessing and Resisting Neoliberal and Neo-colonial Discourses in Early Childhood Education / Marek Tesar, University of Auckland -- 6. Mapping Settler Colonialism and Early Childhood Art / Vanessa Clark, University of Victoria -- 7. Teaching in the Borderlands: Stories from Texas / Julia C. Persky, Texas A&M University and Radhika Viruru, Texas A&M University -- -- Section 3. - Unsettling Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Relations -- 8. Dis-entangling? Re-entanglement? Tackling the pervasiveness of colonialism in early childhood (teacher) education in Aotearoa / Jenny Ritchie, Victoria University of Wellington -- 9. Unsettling both-ways approaches to learning in remote Australian Aboriginal early childhood workforce training / Lyn Fasoli, Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and Rebekah Farmer, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education -- 10. Unsettling Yarns: Reinscribing Indigenous architectures, contemporary Dreamings and newcomer belongings on Ngunnawal country, Australia / Adam Duncan, Wiradjuri Early Childhood Centre, University of Canberra, Fran Dawning, ACT Education and Training Directorate and Affrica Taylor, University of Canberra -- 11. Thinking with land, water, ice, and snow: A proposal for Inuit Nunangat pedagogy in the Canadian Arctic / Mary Caroline Rowan, University of New Brunswick.

"Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education uncovers and interrogates some of the inherent colonialist tensions that are rarely acknowledged and often unwittingly rehearsed within contemporary early childhood education. Through building upon the prior postcolonial interventions of prominent early childhood scholars, Unsettling the Colonial Places and Spaces of Early Childhood Education reveals how early childhood education is implicated in the colonialist project of predominantly immigrant (post)colonial settler societies. By politicizing the silences around these specifically settler colonialist tensions, it seeks to further unsettle the innocence presumptions of early childhood education and to offer some decolonizing strategies for early childhood practitioners and scholars. Grounding their inquiries in early childhood education, the authors variously engage with postcolonial theory, place theory, feminist philosophy, the ecological humanities and indigenous onto-epistemologies."--Publisher's website.