The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood

Dyer, Hannah

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“…Rather, as stated by Johnson and McRuer (2014) "cripistemology at its best demonstrates that theorizing is and always should be multi-directional (and multitudinous)" (p.145). Thus, in cripping the story of overcoming, we also refuse the western colonial logics that sustain unjust relations of power that are embedded within the kinds of binary categorizations that persist in outright excluding or conditionally including diverse childhoods (Davies & Kenneally, 2020;Dyer, 2019;Runswick-Cole et al, 2018). In this manner, our paper seeks to apply crip theory as an invitation to embrace the complexities of our intersectional entanglements within ECEC learning spaces.…”

Section: Cripping the Overcoming Story: Examples Of Resistance And Re...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cripping the Story of Overcoming: An Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

Karmiris,

Davies

2024

SSJ

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This paper applies crip theory (McRuer, 2006, 2018) as well as other key conceptual tools from disabled childhood studies (Runswick-Cole et al., 2018) and disability studies in education (Cousik & Maconochie, 2017) as a tactic intended to question and resist the story of overcoming as it manifests itself within the discourses and practices of self-regulation in early learning classrooms. This paper offers a brief overview of the range of self-regulation strategies enacted within educational settings in Ontario, Canada, that purport to support young children in overcoming themselves on their way to normalcy. This paper also engages in crip theory as a strategy to both question and disrupt the taken for granted assumption that self-regulation entails a return towards or a sustaining of the efficient and productive neoliberal individual in school systems. Finally, this paper considers how we might not only invite but embrace the disruptions that occur when embodied differences refuse to be overcome by demands to self-regulate. Ultimately, a key aim of this paper is to resist how discourses and practices of self-regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) establish the overcoming narrative as a means to cure, fix or exclude embodied differences while contemplating the vibrant possibilities embedded within learning with and from disabled childhoods.

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Section: Cripping the Overcoming Story: Examples Of Resistance And Re...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cripping the Story of Overcoming: An Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

Karmiris,

Davies

2024

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“…Whiteness and middle-classness have long been signifiers of the archetype of humanity, and Stockton's elocution illustrates how childhood is not exempt from this systemic inequity. Childhood has long been operant in discourses of what it means to be human (Dyer, 2014), and these discourses are bound with historical and contemporary processes of racialisation. As Bernstein (2011) notes, by the mid-nineteenth century, sentimental culture had woven childhood and innocence together wholly.…”

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The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies

Walton

2021

Childhood

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This article questions how we might continue to envision an open and inviting engagement between the terrains of childhood studies and queer theory. Matters of childhood innocence in particular are problematised throughout. The paper builds on the offerings of queer of colour scholarship and women of colour feminism, endeavouring to contribute to an emergent childhood studies that is informed by queer and feminist understandings that uphold the materiality and lived experience of the child, both in theory and in practice.

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“…Schools that try to provide support networks and a community atmosphere have lower levels of violence and higher levels of academic achievement (Crawford & Burns, 2020; DiPietro et al, 2015). Sex education curriculum in this article is presented as a mode of gender justice that considers how merging queer theory, childhood studies, and curriculum can contribute to school transformation (Dyer, 2020; Elliot, 2016; Henninger, 2018; Walton, 2021). Transformative pedagogies offer tools that help students navigate the difficulties of acquiring new forms of knowledge (Elenes, 2013).…”

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Queering School Leadership Preparation Curricula for Gender Justice in Public Schooling

Wilcox

2022

Journal of School Leadership

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Recent education policies and laws such as a new rule to Title IX by the U.S. Department of Education (2020) and the Parental Rights in Education (HB 1557, 2022) also known as the “ Don’t Say Gay” law in Florida have important implications for how educational leaders are expected to address issues of gender, sexuality, and school-based sexual violence in public schools. The purpose of this article is to examine how education laws, policies, and practices privilege heteronormative values in our public schools and how the lack of educational preparation of school officials are complicit in the maintenance of hegemonic racial, gender and sexuality structures in public schooling. Structural intersectionality grounds this study and maps the corporeal consequences of systems of oppression while political intersectionality describes the strategies used to fight against those systems of oppression (Crenshaw, 2014). The study uses a qualitative narrative inquiry methodology to examine coursework data of doctoral students in an education leadership program to interpret their understanding of gender justice in teaching and leadership in public schools. Critical policy analysis as a discursive analytic is used in this study to reveal the interrelatedness of theory and method. The implications of this study bear important implications for understanding the need for gender justice curriculum in school leadership preparation programs and offers thoughts on how queering curricula can be an act of education activism.

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The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood

Cited by 11 publications

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Cripping the Story of Overcoming: An Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

Cripping the Story of Overcoming: An Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)

The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies

Queering School Leadership Preparation Curricula for Gender Justice in Public Schooling

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