Playing It Straight

TRAMA

"Playing It Straight" is based on a unique qualitative study which explores how gender is created, taken up, and performed in an urban kindergarten classroom. Both feminist poststructuralism and queer theory are used to encourage new understandings of children's talk and actions within the social context of an early childhood classroom. Gender discourses are discussed, providing students and teachers with examples of how the heterosexual matrix works in a classroom setting and with young children. Three engaging case studies of an Anglo American, middle-class boy, an Anglo American working-class girl, and an Asian American, working-class girl are presented showing how children use their understanding of gender discourses in various ways to regulate the gender social order of the classroom. "Playing It Straight "shows how post developmental perspectives can challenge teachers and students to reconceptualize gender as a social, historical, cultural, and political construction, and to recognize that young children take an active part of constructing and reconstructing their gender identities. <BR>"Playing It" "Straight," <BR>> frames both local and global contexts for the study of childhood and gender<BR>> provides in-depth case studies in an accessible and engaging manner <BR>> defines important new ways of looking at classroom life, 'doing gender, ' and the social construction of lives in classrooms<BR>> uses an interdisciplinary approach that provides students and teachers a unique glimpse into the complexities of classroom life and shows the multiple ways children become gendered

NOTE EDITORE

In particular, this book uses alternative theoretical perspectives to focus on how young children are 'doing' gender in kindergarten classroom.Rather than relying exclusively on biological and socialization theories of gender construction, Blaise breaks down theoretical barriers with new understandings of how gender is socially and politically constructed by young children.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1 Feminist Poststructuralism and Queer Theory: What Do They Offer?; Chapter 2 Researching With Children in the Early Childhood Classroom; Chapter 3 Uncovering the Heterosexual Matrix; Chapter 4 Alan: Power Broker; Chapter 5 Madison: a Risk Taker; Chapter 6 Penny: The “Good” Girl; Chapter 7 Rethinking Gender and Early Childhood Teaching;

AUTORE

Mindy Blaise is Assistant Professor at RMIT University, Australia. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University of Melbourne.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415951142
• Collana: Changing Images of Early Childhood
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 0.65 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 2 tables
• Pagine Arabe: 220