Childhood and cultural studies: section introduction.

Publication: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

Publication Date: 22-SEP-05

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For 15 to 20 years the field of Early Childhood Education has engaged with postmodern, poststructural, feminist identity issues. Many of us would even propose that the field has followed the lead of the curriculum theorists toward reconceptualization of an area of work in which boundaries are blurred and curriculum is understood as "symbolic representation" (Pinar, et al., 1995, p. 16). The discourses, structures, and images that construct the field have been recognized as historical, political, gendered, westernized and racialized...

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