This article demonstrates how feminist posthumanism can reconfigure conceptualisations of,
and practices with,'child'in Montessori early childhood contexts. It complicates Montessori's …

Retention rates for men in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are low. Exit is
associated with experience of feeling 'other'perpetuated by judgements of men's sexuality …

In the past few decades important work has been undertaken to unsettle essentialist
conceptualisations of gender/sex in the early years workforce. Through an …

Familiarity with 'the pioneers' of early childhood is deemed essential knowledge for anyone
seeking to understand how contemporary conceptualisations of child/hood have come …

In this article, we introduce a relational approach to toy pedagogy. A narrative and three
photographs from field studies in kindergartens function as sticky knots. By following …

This paper dwells upon what was agitated in a research methods workshop that invited
postgraduate researchers to take seriously materiality, movement, bodies and affect–as a …

Early childhood literacy is pervaded by dominant discourses telling children both what to
say, how to say it, and what is worthy of adults' attention. These discourses are affected by …

This chapter attends to a critical analysis of the ways in which the early childhood education
workforce in England experiences a series of fundamental social injustices. Through a …

This chapter offers a Playful Archive which t (h) reads a path through research undertaken in
childhood studies over the author's past decade, insisting that uncertainty, speculation, and …

Friedrich Froebel is often positioned in contemporary landscapes of early childhood
education as a 'pioneer', strongly associated with an emphasis on self-directed activity and …