Investigating Early Childhood Teachers' Intercultural Storying and Relationalities

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Investigations of Early Childhood Teacher Contexts and Identities (Table 38)

Abstract

This presentation outlines a project that aims to raise early childhood teachers' intercultural wellbeing and belonging, by strengthening anti-racist orientations and inclusion in their teaching teams. Engaging in this under-researched area it uses feminist poststructural and posthuman approaches to open up to the discomforts and unknowablenesses of teachers’ experiences. Involving early childhood teachers in Australia and New Zealand the presentation shares the importance of engaging with teachers’ culture stories in multimodal and diffractive ways. Whilst expected outcomes of the project include greater openness in teachers intercultural practices in early childhood settings, at the heart of the project are the educational outcomes, intercultural orientations and social wellbeing of Australia’s very young children.

Author

• Sonja Arndt, University of Melbourne