Critical Everydays: A Narrative Inquiry into a Teacher’s Daily Pedagogies

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Abstract

Where does the voice of the early childhood educator live in discourses of critical pedagogy? How might the critical everyday movements and choices of teachers be examined for their embedded layers of pedagogical intention How might voice emerge from the rich silence of our everydays in the classroom? Through autoethnography, this narrative study explores the everyday moments of one PreKindergarten teacher, and the layers of critical pedagogy that inform her practice. Framed within the work of Freire (1970, 1987, 1998), Shor (1987, 1992), and Grumet (1988), I examine the intentionalities of these moments, the worlds that they silently hold, and the complexities of the daily movements of the early childhood educator. Through narrative inquiry, openings, questions, possibilities, and liberations emerge.

Authors

• Heather J. Pinedo-Burns

• Dana Frantz Bentley, Buckingham Browne and Nichols School