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Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education

Building and Supporting Pro-Diversity Spaces

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Authors:
  1. Rachel Chapman

    1. Melbourne Polytechnic, Preston, Australia

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  • Reveals discourses that enable and constrain building gender expansive spaces and contexts in ECE
  • Promotes discursive agency in ECE practice
  • Offers insight into the development and future of ECE policy and curriculum in relation to gender

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Gender in the Early Years

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 1-22

  3. A Deep Dive on Gender

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 23-51

  4. Where Does Policy Come From?

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 53-78

  5. The Early Childhood Educators’ Contexts

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 79-97

  6. The Educators’ Stories

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 99-150

  7. Discourses Constraining and Enabling Work on Gender

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 151-171

  8. Conclusions and Implications

    • Rachel Chapman
    Pages 173-186

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 187-191
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About this book

This book explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how early childhood educators’ views on children’s gender identity influence their practice in Australia. The author utilizes feminist post-structuralism, queer theory and performativity as theoretical approaches, and feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when such environments are socially and politically contentious. It then identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while considering how to disrupt normative notions of gender and promote the deployment of discursive agency.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Melbourne Polytechnic, Preston, Australia

    Rachel Chapman

About the author

Rachel Chapman is an experienced academic in early childhood education at Melbourne Polytechnic in Melbourne, Australia. She earned a PhD in Education from RMIT University. Her research areas include early childhood education, gender, diversity, inclusion, policy and teacher practice, and she has extensive experience in curriculum design. She is a board member of Social Justice in Early Childhood.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education

  • Book Subtitle: Building and Supporting Pro-Diversity Spaces

  • Authors: Rachel Chapman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46798-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46797-4Published: 28 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46800-1Due: 28 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46798-1Published: 27 December 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 191

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, Gender Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education

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