Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Chapter 1: CHANGING PARADIGMS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE IN DOING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Chapter 2: DOING FEMINIST POSTSTRUCTURALIST THEORY WITH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
Chapter 3: LOCAL AND GLOBAL SOCIAL RELATIONS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS AND INEQUALITY
Chapter 4: 'IT'S MORE THAN BLACK DOLLS AND BROWN PAINT’: CRITICAL MULTICULTURALISM, WHITENESS AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Chapter 5: FAMILIES AS PERFORMATIVE SOCIAL SPACES. RECONCEPTUALIZING THE FAMILY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Chapter 6: BILINGUALISM, IDENTITY AND ENGLISH AS A GLOBALIZED LANGUAGE
Chapter 7: GENDER PERFORMATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Chapter 8: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE ‘CLOSET’: DEALING WITH SEXUAL IDENTITY ISSUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Chapter 9: THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Glossary
References

About the Author

Kerry H. Robinson is a senior lecturer in sociology, cultural diversity and social justice education in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in the fields of the sociology of childhoods, gender, sexuality and how they are played out in education contexts.

Criss Jones Díaz is a lecturer in cultural diversity, languages education and equity issues in the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Drawing on critical and cultural studies, she has published widely in the areas of bilingual education, literacies and identity negotiation in contexts of diversity and difference.