A personal history of resistance, re-imagining and re-search in a quest for more equitable and just early childhoods

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This essay describes motivations and evolving foci of my work over decades of teaching, international travel, and cross-cultural research; and situates changes in my sense of self as an educator, scholar and reconceptualist within socio-cultural and political contexts. Lessons from children inspire reflections on the challenges of critique and negotiating perspectives on early care and education. The essay concludes with provocations for more community-based collaborative inquiry on behalf of childhoods in pluralistic and threatened democratic societies.

 

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2024-01-26

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: Critical reflections and provocations from reconceptualist “elders”

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Articles (Peer Reviewed Research)

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