Who Cares for Carers? How Discursive Constructions of Care Work Marginalized Early Childhood Educators in Ontario's 2018 Provincial Election

Autor/inn/en	Powell, Alana; Langford, Rachel; Albanese, Patrizia; Prentice, Susan; Bezanson, Kate
Titel	Who Cares for Carers? How Discursive Constructions of Care Work Marginalized Early Childhood Educators in Ontario's 2018 Provincial Election
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 21 (2020) 2, S.153-164 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Powell, Alana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.1177/1463949120928433
Schlagwörter	Elections; Child Caregivers; Political Attitudes; Discourse Analysis; Early Childhood Education; Feminism; Political Campaigns; Gender Differences; Sex Role; Females; Mothers; Employed Parents; Social Attitudes; Preschool Teachers; Foreign Countries; Disadvantaged; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Election; Wahl; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Diskursanalyse; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Feminismus; Geschlechterkonflikt; Geschlechterrolle; Weibliches Geschlecht; Mother; Mutter; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of three major parties: the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. This critical discourse analysis provided an opportunity to consider the absence and presence of early childhood education and care discourses in the election platforms, and the consequences this has for the advancement of the workforce. The findings indicate that the early childhood education and care workforce remained largely invisible in the 2018 childcare platforms. When present, educators were often constructed as components of the early childhood education and care system's stability. In addition, a discourse of 'maternal care burden' emerged in some platforms, which initially suggested progressive recognition of the gendered reality of care and care work for women in Ontario. However, the critical discourse analysis illuminates that the maternal-care-burden discourse, while suggesting that mothers are freed to enter the paid workforce, actually reinforces notions of care as women's work. As well, this discourse further marginalizes the early childhood education and care workforce by downloading one group's caring responsibilities to a new group of invisible carers -- early childhood educators. In light of these findings, the need to disrupt discourses that continue to devalue the early childhood education and care workforce is considered as researchers and advocates seek to assert care labour as an essential public responsibility and a critical concern in political dialogue. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01