ECCE.Lucy
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Blogs I follow
| Industry | Education |
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| Introduction | Hello, My name is Lucy and I am an early childhood educator. I am also a first year PhD student in a graduate program in Education. I am interested in exploring the division between theory and practice that has been constructed in the field of early childhood and western society. I am interested in working on short thematic readings of key educational theorists for thinking about conceptions of teaching, learning, the child and adult, language, maturation and dependency as they relate to schooling. Thinking with a wide range of philosophers, I will question who the teacher is and how the teacher sees the child when she constructs barriers between theory and practice. I will relate my experience working in a university childcare center to this research into the theory practice division. I will also draw on literary representations of childhood as I think about how the fantasy of the child comes into play in education and in relations between adults and children. |
| Favorite books | Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Poststructural ideas by Glenda Mac Naughton (2005), Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O`Neill (2006), The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005), Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden (2008), The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King (2003), All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski (2007, Time by Andy Goldsworthy (2000), Going Beyond the Theory Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education: Introducing an intra-active pedagogy by Hillevi Lenz Taguchi (2010), Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2002), The Case of Peter Pan and the Impossibility of Children's Fiction by Jacqueline Rose (1992), Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority by Carolyn Steedman (1994), The Beast in the Nursery by Adam Phillips (1998), Freud and Education by Deborah Britzman (2011), The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions by Deborah Britzman (2009), Echolalias by Daniel Heller-Roazen (2005) |