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Zusatztext Taking aim from a range of theoretical perspectives, the essays gathered here raise important challenges to the often taken-for-granted place of care in early childhood education. Foregrounding and interrogating the complexities of care entanglements across the relational, political, mundane, and messy, this book reveals feminist theories of care that must be debated by all who work with young children. Informationen zum Autor Rachel Langford is Professor Emeritus in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is the author of Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice (Bloomsbury, 2019) Klappentext This open access book responds to a growing academic interest in theorizing care and care work in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. The contributors theorize a new feminist ethics of care in everyday early childhood practice, revealing its complexities and importance. Drawing on feminist theories and philosophies, the chapter authors show how the caring practices of early childhood educators involve values, emotions, decision-making, action and work. Using cutting-edge theory, authors address the social locations and the inclusion and exclusion of both care givers and care receivers. With contributions from Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, the volume brings together early childhood studies, sociology, psychology, philosophy and critical disability studies to offer diverse perspectives on feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice and its possibilities and dangers. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Vorwort Uses feminism and philosophy to explore a feminist ethics of care in the early childhood education and practice. Zusammenfassung This open access book responds to a growing academic interest in theorizing care and care work in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. The contributors theorize a new feminist ethics of care in everyday early childhood practice, revealing its complexities and importance. Drawing on feminist theories and philosophies, the chapter authors show how the caring practices of early childhood educators involve values, emotions, decision-making, action and work. Using cutting-edge theory, authors address the social locations and the inclusion and exclusion of both care givers and care receivers. With contributions from Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, the volume brings together early childhood studies, sociology, psychology, philosophy and critical disability studies to offer diverse perspectives on feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice and its possibilities and dangers. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors’ ForewordIntroduction, Rachel Langford Part I: Conceptual Developments 1. Contesting and Transforming Care: An Introduction to a Critical Ethics of Care, Marian Barnes 2. An Ethics of Care in Culturally Diverse Early Childhood Settings: Toward an Ethics of Unknowing, Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar 3. Conceptualizing Care as Being and Doing in Ethical Interactions and Sustained Care Relationships in the Early Childhood Institution, Rachel Langford and Jacqueline White 4. Care as Ethic, Care as Labour, Rachel Rosen Part II: Preparing Educators for Practicing Ethics of Care 5. Cultivating Ethical Dispositions in Early Childhood Practice for an Ethic of Care: A Contemplative Approach, Geoff Taggart 6. “I Already Know I Care!” Illuminating the Complexities of Care Practices in Early Childhood and Teacher Education, Colette Rabin Part III: Practicing Feminist Ethics of Care 7. Ripple: The absence and ...
