Open AccessThinking with Doors and Perspectives: Reimagining Early Childhood Spaces
Author(s) -
Sherry Rose,
Kim A. Stewart,
Candace Gallagher,
Pam Malins
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of childhood studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2371-4115
pISSN - 2371-4107
DOI - 10.18357/jcs463202119971
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , posthuman , embodied cognition , narrative , ethics of care , sociology , doors , posthumanism , early childhood , aesthetics , gender studies , psychology , epistemology , developmental psychology , art , engineering , philosophy , literature , structural engineering
This paper explores, through a posthumanist lens, child care as a communal responsibility, taking into account varied partial perspectives produced through human and more-than-human intra-actions. Multiple narratives illustrate embodied and experienced complexities within child care spaces allowing us to reflect on uncomfortable truths to enact affirmative ethics as a way to transform the ways we care for children, their families, each other, and the spaces of child care. Specifically, we think with actual and virtual doors as producers and enablers to create spaces where early childhood educators might collaboratively interrogate how materiality and socially constructed hierarchies are embedded in the inequities that separate us, inequities further exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.