At sea: What direction for critical early childhood research?
In this paper I reflect on the dilemma critical early childhood research finds itself in today. In order to distinguish and distance ourselves from the certainties and seemingly unquestionable truths of post-political, mainstream, ‘normalised’ research and its entanglement with neoliberal agendas an...
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doaj-da3aafb0f6574c59814739a4fd95c4592021-09-06T19:40:53ZengSciendoPedagogický Časopis1338-21442016-06-017110712110.1515/jped-2016-0007jped-2016-0007At sea: What direction for critical early childhood research?Urban Mathias0University of Roehampton, Early Childhood Research Centre, School of Education, Roehampton Lane, SW15 5PU, London, UKIn this paper I reflect on the dilemma critical early childhood research finds itself in today. In order to distinguish and distance ourselves from the certainties and seemingly unquestionable truths of post-political, mainstream, ‘normalised’ research and its entanglement with neoliberal agendas and corporate interests, have we rendered ourselves irrelevant in the struggle for social justice that once formed the basis for critical inquiry in our field? What hope can there be to (re-)claim the political in our research, and what new (and old) alliances can we count on?https://doi.org/10.1515/jped-2016-0007normal sciencecritical inquirypolitical inquirycritical early childhood researchdirectivity of critical research |
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In this paper I reflect on the dilemma critical early childhood research finds itself in today. In order to distinguish and distance ourselves from the certainties and seemingly unquestionable truths of post-political, mainstream, ‘normalised’ research and its entanglement with neoliberal agendas and corporate interests, have we rendered ourselves irrelevant in the struggle for social justice that once formed the basis for critical inquiry in our field? What hope can there be to (re-)claim the political in our research, and what new (and old) alliances can we count on? |
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