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Ungrounding Earth

An Ontological Take on Professionalism and Race in Early Childhood Education and Care

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This article is composed with a political concern for professional practice and learning in early childhood education and care, and how this connects to ethics in the 21st century. It emerges from a recent PhD-study (Andersen, 2015) where an interest in how to perform professionalism ethically in “a multicultural society” was the starting point.

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  1. Faculty of Education and Natural Sciences, Hedmark University College, Norway

    Camilla Eline Andersen

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Andersen, C.E. (2016). Ungrounding Earth. In: Reinertsen, A.B. (eds) Becoming Earth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-429-9_11

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