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Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education: Building and Supporting Pro-Diversity Spaces

Gender Expansion in Early Childhood Education: Building and Supporting Pro-Diversity Spaces

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The book explores gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how educators' views influence practice in Australia. It uses feminist post-structuralism, queer theory, and performativity to create gender-expansive environments and disrupt normative notions of gender.

Format: Hardback
Length: 191 pages
Publication date: 28 December 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG


Gender identity development in early childhood education is explored in this book, which looks at how early childhood educators' perspectives on children's gender identity affect their practice in Australia. The author employs feminist post-structuralism, queer theory, and performativity as theoretical frameworks, as well as feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the perspectives of educators and curriculum document developers to investigate how gender expansive environments can be established in socially and politically contentious contexts. It then identifies discourses that support and limit the creation of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while also considering how to challenge conventional gender norms and promote the use of discursive agency.

Gender Identity Development in Early Childhood Education


This book explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education, examining how early childhood educators' views on children's gender identity influence their practice in Australia. The author utilizes feminist post-structuralism, queer theory, and performativity as theoretical approaches, as well as feminist post-structuralist discourse and thematic analyses. The book captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when such environments are socially and politically contentious. It then identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education, while considering how to disrupt normative notions of gender and promote the deployment of discursive agency.


Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031467974
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023

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