ERIC Number: EJ1244164
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0112-0530
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Professionalism in Early Childhood Teaching: A Posthumanist Perspective
Warren, Alison
Early Childhood Folio, v23 n2 p29-34 2019
Professionalism in early childhood teaching is shaped within contexts, relationships, and multiple discourses of professionalism, as well as historical and enduring maternalism. This article uses posthumanist ideas from Deleuze and Guattari to reframe professionalism as produced in relationships among human and other-than-human aspects of early childhood settings, including materials, theories, and regulations. This article unpacks two data excerpts from a research study into emotions in early childhood teaching. I suggest that early childhood teachers could explore creative ways to enact professionalism as complex, fluid, shifting processes negotiated within everyday happenings, rather than properties contained within human individuals.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Professionalism, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Culturally Relevant Education, Indigenous Knowledge, At Risk Students, Injuries, Well Being, Child Safety, Accident Prevention
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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