Entanglement of Subjects: A View from Early Childhood Education

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VOL 1, NO 1 (2016): PEDAGOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Published: Feb 26, 2016
Keywords:
critical reflection, mission of education, normalization, power relations, socialization, subjectivity.

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Cheryl Cameron
Capilano University
Haideh Hashemi Nouri
Capilano University

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Inspired by our studies of pedagogy and the role of pedagogista we looked to Michael Foucault and how power is enacted in education. Thinking alongside Foucault, and Gert Biesta’s interpretation of subjectivity we problematize the way education is concerned with socialization and normalization. In this paper we attempt to understand the entanglement of subjectivities in relation to the Other. We suggest it is critical for educators to recognize the subjectivity of the ‘Other’ (children, in our field) through attentive listening and engaging in the process of becoming together in order to live well and gain new knowledge. A continual practice of critical reflection in dialogue with others is necessary to support educators in disrupting practices that govern children to fit particular social norms. We inquire together about the ways we view children and how practices of power in education, influenced by normalizing standards, deny children a deeper emergence of themselves

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Cameron, C., & Hashemi Nouri, H. (2016). Entanglement of Subjects: A View from Early Childhood Education. Journal of Childhoods and Pedagogies, 1(1). Retrieved from https://jcp.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jcp/article/view/6
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Cheryl Cameron, Capilano University

Cheryl Cameron is an ECCE degree student at Capilano University. An early childhood educator since 1999, Cheryl has had the privilege of working alongside BC children and families in the West Kootenay region, Victoria, and Greater Vancouver. Her practice and passion has cultivated her advocacy for the arts in education, which she currently shares with Childgarden Preschool in Port Moody.

Haideh Hashemi Nouri, Capilano University

Haideh Hashemi Nouri is an early childhood educator with years of experience in the field of education in Iran and Canada. She has been working in early learning centres North Vancouver since 1999. Haideh believes that education is a life long journey, and she is currently taking courses in the ECCE degree program at Capilano University. 

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