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Home in Early Childhood Care and Education

Conceptualizations and Reconfigurations

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Gibbons

    1. School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. Sonya Gaches

    1. College of Education, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  3. Sonja Arndt

    1. Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  4. Mara Sapon-Shevin

    1. Inclusive Education, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

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  5. Colette Murray

    1. Department of Social Science, Law, and Education, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  6. Mathias Urban

    1. Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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  7. Marek Tesar

    1. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • Brings together global perspectives to explore home as a conceptual and intellectual space
  • Interrogates a well-visited concept in ECCE institutions as globalized early learning agendas increase their attendance
  • Examines how students holding various experiences of home may encounter it in the classroom

Part of the book series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood (CCSC)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Welcome to Home: An Introduction

    • Andrew Gibbons, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Sonya Gaches, Mathias Urban, Colette Murray, Marek Tesar et al.
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Deconstruction of the Language of Home

    • Andrew Gibbons
    Pages 25-42

  4. Whose Home? Problematizing the Nature of “Homelike” in Early Childhood Education

    • Mara Sapon-Shevin
    Pages 43-59

  5. Home or Homelessness: A Diffractive Re-articulation of Teacher Otherness

    • Sonja Arndt
    Pages 61-73

  6. Criminalization of the Right to Home for Palestinian Children

    • Janette Habashi
    Pages 75-93

  7. Home Is There: Borderlands, Belonging, and the Stories We Tell

    • Angeles Maldonado, Beth Blue Swadener
    Pages 95-116

  8. Theorizing Architectures of Home

    • Marek Tesar
    Pages 117-131

  9. The Things of Home: Histories, People, Stories, Belonging

    • Sonya Gaches
    Pages 133-149

  10. Heart(h)less: Negative Visibility and Positive Invisibility: An Irish Travellers’ Tale

    • Colette Murray
    Pages 151-176

  11. Vagabonds Efficaces—Effectively Changing the World from a Non-space

    • Mathias Urban
    Pages 177-197

  12. Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education and Home with Love

    • Margarita Ruiz Guerrero, Andrew Gibbons
    Pages 199-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-214
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About this book

This edited volume investigates the effects of shifting configurations and conceptualizations of the experience and meaning of home as it is embodied in early childhood care and education (ECCE). As the globalized early learning agenda drives more children to attend ECCE institutions, these institutions increasingly employ the concept of home through their curriculum and daily operations by attempting to foster a homelike environment or by incorporating items from children's homes into play. Chapters seek to recognize the complexity of a concept that is often taken for granted by exploring ways of being and thinking that share an interest in the notion of home. Authors offer multiple lenses and approaches to make sense of home as a conceptual space that operates in complex and often interrelated ways, including as an intellectual space, a built environment, a disciplinary technology, and a threshold.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Andrew Gibbons

  • College of Education, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Sonya Gaches

  • Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Sonja Arndt

  • Inclusive Education, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Mara Sapon-Shevin

  • Department of Social Science, Law, and Education, Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Colette Murray

  • Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Mathias Urban

  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Marek Tesar

About the editors

Andrew Gibbons is Professor in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. 

Sonya Gaches is Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood Education at the University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand. 

Sonja Arndt is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. 

Mara Sapon-Shevin is Professor of Inclusive Education at Syracuse University, USA.

Colette Murray is Lecturer at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. 

Mathias Urban is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. 

Marek Tesar is Professor of Childhood Studies and Early Childhood Education, as well as Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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