Re-Imagining the Image of the Educator in Post-Secondary Early Childhood Education: Calling for Epistemic Justice

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Title: Re-Imagining the Image of the Educator in Post-Secondary Early Childhood Education: Calling for Epistemic Justice
Language: English
Authors: Adam W. J. Davies (ORCID 0000-0002-9169-4997), Brooke Richardson, Zuhra Abawi
Source: Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 2024 32(4):1013-1031.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Racism, Social Bias, Teacher Role, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Residential Schools, Canada Natives
Geographic Terms: Canada
DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2024.2355100
ISSN: 1468-1366
1747-5104
Abstract: Early childhood education (ECE) spaces within settler-colonial societies operate as sites of violence and oppression whereby non-conformity to white, rational, ableist, cisgender norms is weaponised as developmental deficits. In this paper, we refer to the refusals of non-dominant ways of knowing as forms of epistemic injustice (Fricker 2007). We describe the foundational underpinnings of ECE throughout the twentieth century in Ontario, Canada and trace how normative ideas of children, educators, education, and childhood developed through a largely positivist, developmental orientation. Ultimately, we call for epistemic justice (Fricker 2007) as an emancipatory way forward in post-secondary ECE programmes.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1428392
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Early childhood education (ECE) spaces within settler-colonial societies operate as sites of violence and oppression whereby non-conformity to white, rational, ableist, cisgender norms is weaponised as developmental deficits. In this paper, we refer to the refusals of non-dominant ways of knowing as forms of epistemic injustice (Fricker 2007). We describe the foundational underpinnings of ECE throughout the twentieth century in Ontario, Canada and trace how normative ideas of children, educators, education, and childhood developed through a largely positivist, developmental orientation. Ultimately, we call for epistemic justice (Fricker 2007) as an emancipatory way forward in post-secondary ECE programmes.
ISSN:1468-1366
1747-5104
DOI:10.1080/14681366.2024.2355100