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Be/longing: Reciprocal mentoring, pedagogies of place, and critical childhood studies in the time of Trump
- Source :
- Global Studies of Childhood. 7:207-221
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- This essay focuses on the important, but often taken-for-granted, roles that mentoring and collaborative inquiry play in rethinking childhood studies and situates our work in a time of resurgent racism and xenophobia in the United States—as well as invigorated movements to affirm human rights and social justice. It represents a co-mentoring dialogue, spanning over a decade, about the complexities of embodying critical, activist scholarship within dominant (White, Western, heteronormative, and Global North) assumptions about childhood, families, and communities. Our co-interrogation of these deeply encoded assumptions has been driven by a shared question of how to span the seemingly disparate discourse communities of critically engaged scholars and mainstream early childhood professionals in a variety of community contexts. These efforts have been guided by learning from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies and Black and Chicana/Latina/Mestiza feminisms. To illustrate what continues to be a reciprocal mentoring relationship, we use critical personal narrative to discuss key influences, literature, pedagogies of place, and exigencies of sustaining critical childhood studies movements in the current moment.
- Subjects :
- Early childhood education
Sociology and Political Science
Higher education
business.industry
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0507 social and economic geography
Place-based education
050301 education
Development
Childhood studies
050701 cultural studies
Racism
Feminism
Education
Critical theory
Pedagogy
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Early childhood
Psychology
business
0503 education
Demography
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20436106
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Global Studies of Childhood
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3146b7f4923fea2c7d6e3a5937b929cb