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Super-epistemic Diversity: Intersectional Interplay of Educational Knowledge in Programa Futuro Infantil Hoy

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Vertovec’s (Ethnic Racial Stud 30(6):1024–1054, 2007) summary notion of ‘super-diversity’ challenges social researchers to multivariate inquiries of diversity. This chapter presents super-epistemic diversity as a conceptual approach to understanding multi-stranded, uneven and multidirectional flows of knowledge in the context of Futuro Infantil Hoy (FIH), an innovative transnational early childhood education program. It critically examines primary evidence of the interplay of global and local knowledge of the super-diverse intellectual stakeholders in FIH. Findings show that this knowledge interplay has promoted a perceived paradigm shift about family involvement in children’s education and prompts a reconsideration of the nature of super-epistemic diversity.

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    “Parents” are used here instead of “families” which is more inclusive.

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    These changes have been carried forward. Interviews in 2012 showed that: The principal focus of this project is working with families. Before the project we were working on activities without taking their opinions, needs or the context of their living, nor their knowledge, beliefs, and feelings (CHI-Katia); So far there have been a lot of changes that have been hard but not impossible, especially the socio-cultural point of view to integrate the families and their educational agency in the process of children’s learning. (CHI-Dani)

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Qi, J., Woodrow, C. (2016). Super-epistemic Diversity: Intersectional Interplay of Educational Knowledge in Programa Futuro Infantil Hoy . In: Cole, D., Woodrow, C. (eds) Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0312-7_7

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