Radically Listening to Transgender Children - Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant

This book is for early childhood educators committed to learning about gender [in]justice as a foundation for creating gender affirming environments for everyone including transgender and gender expansive children. The authors engage in contemporary thinking about gender acknowledging its complexity, intersectionality and diversity.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - To be Twice Invisible: Professional Ethics in Early Childhood and the Epistemic Cliff Faced by Young Gender Expansive Children

Chapter 2 - Theorizing from the Edge: Dismantling Boy/Girl Boxes and Looking to the Starry Sky to Construct Gender Constellations

Chapter 3 - Testimonial (In)justice: Establishing Credibility in an Early Childhood Context of Identity Prejudice

Chapter 4 - Hermeneutical (In)justice: Rendering Lived Experience as Visible Truth for Young Children

Chapter 5 - Resistant Social Imaginations: Striating Paths for Gender Liberation in Early Childhood Classrooms

About the author

Katie Steele is a gender equity researcher and writer for Gender Justice in Early Childhood.

Julie Nicholson is professor of practice in the school of education at Mills College.

Summary

This book is for early childhood educators committed to learning about gender [in]justice as a foundation for creating gender affirming environments for everyone including transgender and gender expansive children. The authors engage in contemporary thinking about gender acknowledging its complexity, intersectionality and diversity.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Nicholson, Nicholson Julie, Katie Steele, Katie Nicholson Steele, Steele Katie
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781498590396
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9039-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, Inclusive education / mainstreaming, Educational strategies & policy: Inclusion, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies