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The Deconstruction of the Language of Home

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Andrew Gibbons explores the task of “making-home-like” as an impossible task for an early childhood teacher. Using Derrida’s (Of hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle invites Jacques Derrida to respond (R. Bowlby, trans.). Stanford University Press, 2000a) deconstruction of hospitality, the chapter explores the idea of home. Deconstruction operates here as a task of “restlessness” in questioning the “conditions of discourse” (Vismann, German Law J, 6(1):8, 2005) that reveals what is not said, what is made unwelcome, and what is critical to the possibilities of talking about home. Through Derrida (Angelkai 5(3):3–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09697250020034706, 2000b) we become interested in how an idea of home makes the politics of early childhood education possible.

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    Andrew Gibbons

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

    Andrew Gibbons

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

    Sonya Gaches

  3. Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Sonja Arndt

  4. Inclusive Education, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Mara Sapon-Shevin

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

    Colette Murray

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

    Mathias Urban

  7. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Marek Tesar

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Gibbons, A. (2023). The Deconstruction of the Language of Home. In: Gibbons, A., et al. Home in Early Childhood Care and Education. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43695-6_2

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