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Article: Rethinking Gender in Early Childhood Education.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Early Childhood
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
- Author:
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Glenda MacNaughton Allen & Unwin 2000 ISBN 1 86508 036 5
This book presents a sustained challenge to current orthodoxies in early childhood education. Looking at gender equity strategies from a feminist post-structuralist perspective, Glenda MacNaughton examines the `truths' of our early childhood practice and finds them wanting.
The work is framed around the action research of a small group of early childhood practitioners exploring gender issues in their work. It documents their discussions, beliefs and practices as they worked to understand why so many of the strategies for gender equity they learned from conventional practice had little impact on the ...