Place-based disruptions of humanism, coloniality and anti-blackness in early childhood education

Place-based disruptions of humanism, coloniality and anti-blackness in early childhood education

Blog Article

This essay engages with the generative potentials and necessity of attunement to place in education.I focus in Recorders particular on what bringing Indigenous and Black feminisms and feminist new materialisms into conversation, might mobilize towards unsettling the anthropocentric, colonial and anti-black inheritances of early childhood education.I situate my engagements with place within ongoing and intensifying anthropogenic environmental precarity that underline the imperative of more relational ways of living and learning in always already more-than-human worlds.In bringing feminist new materialisms into conversation with Indigenous and Black feminisms, I am interested in mobilizing relationalities that unsettle human centeredness while also collectibles disrupting the universalization of the category of the human.