Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies

<p>The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to the classroom. The book covers such issues as:</p><ul> <li>becoming post-structurally reflective about truth</li> <li>mapping classroom meanings</li> <li>tactics of rhizoanalysis</li> <li>becoming again in critically-knowing communities.</li> </ul><p>Case-studies and examples taken from real situations are used and will be of interest to anyone studying or researching early childhood practice and policy. </p> 1. Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth 2. Confronting a 'will to truth': troubling truths of the child poststructurally 3. Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally 4. Deliberately practicing for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis 5. Seeking the 'Otherwise': re-meeting relations of 'race' in early childhood classroom histories 6. Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities