58.082-4 - Disrupting the Status Quo in Early Childhood Research: Shifting Toward New Possibilities

• In Event: 58.082 - Roundtable Session 25

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium brings together educators from across early childhood education disrupting the increasing concentration on young children’s academic preparation and testing and longitudinal databases that track children and teachers’ performance as well as university programs driven by standardized teacher preparation assessments. These educators are shifting their research emphasis towards compassion for human conditions and societal ailments, connection, joy and learning, wonder and disequilibrium, love and heart-ache, beauty and compassion, nourishment and relationships and all of the issues around learning to live day-by-day and moment-by-moment in life. This knowledge is pursuing actions in the field, furthering the rethinking of education refocusing on equity and opportunity, linking directly with the 2017 AERA theme.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Chairs

• Nicola J. Yelland, Flinders University, Australia

• Will Parnell, Portland State University

Papers

• Repositioning Academics as Public Intellectuals: Rethinking Early Childhood Teacher Education - Jeanne Marie Iorio, Victoria University - Melbourne; Clifton S. Tanabe, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Plastics, Birds, and Humans: Awakening and Quickening Ecological Minds in Young Children and Their Teachers - Will Parnell, Portland State University

• Engaging With Place: Foregrounding Aboriginal Perspectives in Early Childhood - Catherine Hamm, Victoria University - Melbourne

• Carrying Our Roots, Leads to Matters of Concern (Latour, 2004) - Elizabeth P. Quintero, California State University - Channel Islands