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Sonja Arndt observes the effects of contemporary migratory shifts in terms of global and local impacts. Relational treatments of the Other in early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings affect conceptions of home and are driven by underlying attitudes and orientations towards Otherness, familiarity, and the self, where home may become seen as an inner sense. Theorized through Kristeva’s notion that it is only when we recognize that all of us are foreigners within, the chapter offers a critical entry point towards rethinking attitudes of openness and acceptance to and of the Other. Recognizing that ‘the foreigner lives within us’ presents a humbling and hopeful disruption to expectations and strategies in ECCE.
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Arndt, S. (2023). Home or Homelessness: A Diffractive Re-articulation of Teacher Otherness. 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_4
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