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The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks

The Posthuman Child: Educational transformation through philosophy with picturebooks

Paperback

Series: Contesting Early Childhood

General Education

ISBN10: 1138858447
ISBN13: 9781138858442
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2016
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses.

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