Beyond Male Recruitment: Decolonising Gender Diversification Efforts in the Early Years by Attending to Pastpresent Material-Discursive-Affective Entanglements

Autor/in	Mohandas, Sid
Titel	Beyond Male Recruitment: Decolonising Gender Diversification Efforts in the Early Years by Attending to Pastpresent Material-Discursive-Affective Entanglements
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 34 (2022) 1, S.17-32 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mohandas, Sid)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2021.1884202
Schlagwörter	Gender Bias; Sex Stereotypes; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Preschool Education; Social Bias; Racial Bias; History; Feminism; Neoliberalism; Social Systems; Montessori Schools; Educational History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterstereotyp; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Feminismus; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Social system; Soziales System; Montessori-Schule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	In the past few decades important work has been undertaken to unsettle essentialist conceptualisations of gender/sex in the early years workforce. Through an auto/ethnographic diffractive engagement that thinks with feminist 'new' materialist and postcolonial scholarships, this paper uncovers the need to move beyond an exclusive focus on diversifying the workforce by simply increasing the number of men. Moving beyond the narrow focus enables a richer and more expansive understanding of gender/sex that exposes colonialism and reveals everyday practices of early childhood educators to be shaped by place, space and matter. By attending to how matter matters in early years, child-sized chairs are used as a point of entry into this research inquiry to explore how gender/sex is produced through pastpresent, material-discursive-affective and more-than-human entanglements. The paper proposes that complicating understandings of gender/sex is important to decolonise early childhood spaces, and so hold space for the emergence of difference that is unmodulated by whiteness. Recognising the agentic potential of matter further opens up possibilities for that which is not yet, but available to us, to make life more thinkable in cis-white heteropatriarchy. (As Provided).
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