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Decolonizing Childhood Knowledge Practices with Haraway and Daoist Philosophy

Becoming Kin with/in Multispecies Mourning

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Decolonizing Childhood Knowledge Practices with Haraway and Daoist Philosophy

Becoming Kin with/in Multispecies Mourning

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This interdisciplinary book considers mourning as an ongoing and relational encounter which holds educative power for early childhood educators. The book challenges widely held medicalized views about mourning where the desired outcome of grief is for the mourner to let go and detach from the deceased through an individual's linear-staged recovery process. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, Daoist philosophy, posthumanism, and decolonial, affect, and feminist new materialist theories, this book explores mourning in relation to a wider definition of education and what we learn from it beyond the scope of the curriculum. These ideas are then applied to early childhood education, both at a personal level (individual grief) and at a collective level at global, human and non-human, past, present and future. Shil Bae presents multispecies and multicultural narratives in a range of formats including arts, poetry, Daoist fables, Eastern worldviews, and photos.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Introduction
Introduction
1. Theoretical lens
2. Storytelling with Kumiho: (Re)configuring mourning and knowledge practice
3. The Void: (Re)storying grief as a kin-making encounter in the Shimmer
4. Tensions: Active listening of silence when/where tension bubbles up
5. Liminality: (Re)storying grief as a relational world-making encounter in a speculative middle
6. Bigger than the sum of parts: (Re)storying grief as an ongoing educative encounter
Conclusion
References
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 15 Apr 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781350571037
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Series Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Sil Bae

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