"Vagabonds Efficaces" Once Again: Why Critical Early Childhood Scholars Must Wander From Their Intellectual Home to Confront Persistent Systemic Injustices and Bring About Change

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Embracing Well-Being and Joy to Advance Equity and Justice in Early Childhood Education (Table 41)

Abstract

I interrogate the notion of an intellectual home in a community of critical early childhood scholars, and its implications for critical scholars’ becoming policy activists working towards dismantling persistent racial and other injustices and inequities affecting young children from birth, and their families and communities. I explore the necessity of an intellectual home for a globally dispersed group of scholars who find themselves outside the mainstream of their field, be it by choice or by accident. As the world changes around us, yet old injustices, inequalities, and impositions persist, I suggest we will have to reconsider our home and open the gates of our protective space and engage with a world shaped by new systemic, geopolitical, and epistemological tensions.

Author

• Mathias Urban, Dublin City University