Anti-racist and Decolonial Approaches to Early Years Education
Perspectives from the Nordics
Anti-racist and Decolonial Approaches to Early Years Education
Perspectives from the Nordics
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This edited volume locates and interrupts absences concerning the workings of race, whiteness and coloniality in relation to early years education in the Nordics. The contributors provide novel empirical knowledge and contextualized understandings of concepts such as coloniality, race, racism, whiteness, and intersectionality in relation to early years education, in and across the Nordics, including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland and Sápmi. The edited volume offers developments in pedagogical theory and practice that can offer alternatives, interruptions, and counterstrategies to the reproduction of racism, coloniality and injustice in and through education.
The book sheds light on the particularities of the Nordics, presenting contextually relevant examples that provide insights of relevance to the broader international context of anti-racist and decolonial education.
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Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction: Coloniality, Racism and Otherness in the Nordics – Sanctioned Ignorance and Interruptive Gestures, Kristin Gregers Eriksen and Mari Kristine Jore
Part 1 Elusive Constructions of Otherness in Nordic Early Years Education: Whiteness and Intersectionality
1. Avoiding the Tiger: Intersections of Race and Religion in a Norwegian Kindergarten, Ragnhild Laird-Iversen and Lars Laird-Iversen
2. Solidarity Without Justice? Exploring Global Perspectives in Norwegian Kindergartens, Arnhild Leer-Helgesen, June Fylkesnes and Eric Kimathi
3. Reconsidering Lucia: Whiteness and Cultural Bias in Nordic Early Childhood Education, Osa Lundberg
4. The Political Economy of Emotions in Equality Work in Danish Early Childhood Education and Care, Jo Krøjer and Marta Padovan-Özdemir
Part 2 Colonial Archives of Knowledge: Norms of Professionality and Conceptualizations of Care in Early Years Education
5. The (Un)fortune-Tellers of the Welfare State: Placement Practices Concerning Greenlandic Children in Denmark, Najannguaq Hegelund and Tina Naamansen
6. Young Roma in Vulnerable Situations, Merete Saus, Aylin Karayazgan, Claudia Josef, Djulia Spatalaj,
Mariann Bellika Hansen and Inger Sigfridsson
7. Decolonization of Early Childhood Education: Sámi Kindergartens in Norway, Monica Bjerklund
8. Colour-Evasive Early Childhood Education and Care, Maria Saloranta, Jan-Erik Mansikka, Gunilla Holm, Monica Londen and Alexandra Nordström
Part 3 Openings, Interruptions and New Beginnings: Decolonial and Anti-racist Approaches to Pedagogical Theory and Practice
9. Children as Political Subjects of the Now: Decolonizing Voice for Children's Agency and Political Equality in Norwegian Primary Education, Lene Chrizie Haualand Sirevåg
10. Applying a Decolonial Lens to Preschool Research in Iceland, Brynja Elisabeth Halldórsdóttir and Sue Elizabeth Gollifer
11. 'Everybody Must Learn the Rainbow Language!' Decolonial Perspectives on a Utopia Workshop for Finnish and Norwegian Nine- to Twelve-Year-Olds, Pia Mikander and Julie Ane Ødegaard Borge
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| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350506299 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Race, Ethnicity and Belonging in Education |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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