Pedagogies of possibility : a study reconceptualizing the teacher's role in a reggio-inspired urban preschool classroom.

early childhood education;pedagogy;reggio emilia;reconceptualizing early childhood education;urban education;feminist methodologies

Christina Louise Angleton

University:University of Louisville

Department:Early Childhood and Elementary Education

关键词: early childhood education;    pedagogy;    reggio emilia;    reconceptualizing early childhood education;    urban education;    feminist methodologies;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4465&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education is an innovative and often imitated “way of being” with young children (Rinaldi, 2006). Reggio-inspired teachers enact rich pedagogical stances in their work with young children. In North American contexts, the approach is frequently associated with wealthy, suburban communities. Adopting a feminist methodology, this dissertation explores the pedagogical moves one teacher made as she enacted the identity of a Reggio teacher in an urban preschool classroom. The theoretical framework guiding this study is grounded in feminist poststructural, postmodern, and decolonization scholarship, each of which inform a movement known as Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE). RECE works to disrupt assumptions about children, childhood, and early educators, providing counternarratives to deficit perspectives often associated with children of color, their families, neighborhoods, and teachers. This dissertation argues for reconceptualizing the teacher’s role as she enacts pedagogies that create spaces for children to demonstrate their myriad competencies and suggests that feminist methodologies result in more equitable researcher-participant relationships.