14.032 - Childhood and Time: Rethinking Notions of Temporality in Early Childhood Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Changing times and the temporality of the notion of childhood become increasingly pertinent in educational scholarship that examines the past, everyday present childhoods, and the futures of childhoods within economic/cultural, and local/global entanglements. This symposium addresses the philosophical concerns about childhood and time in early childhood education. In particular the notion of temporality is a binding concept in this session, as it allows ‘time’ to be re-thought and re-conceptualised, not necessarily as an enabling or constraining concept, but as a productive force that shapes childhoods. The papers in this session address identity and narrative, disciplining children’s education, time as productive in children’s practices, curriculum and policy, and in rethinking childhood development, through the notions of past, present and future.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Chair

• Nicola J. Yelland, Victoria University - Australia

Papers

• Timing Childhoods: The Alternative Reading of Childhood Development - Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland

• Early Childhood: A Play With Time - Sandy Farquhar, The University of Auckland

• Becoming "Babies" in Real Time: Childhoods and Temporal Emergence in the Classroom Mangle - Casey Yvonne Myers, Kent State University - Kent

• Do "We" Really Live in Rapidly Changing Times? The Temporal Politics of Childhood and Technology - Andrew Neil Gibbons, Auckland University of Technology

Discussant

• Marianne N. Bloch, University of Wisconsin - Madison