Voices of Transgender Children in Early Childhood Education

Voices of Transgender Children in Early Childhood Education
Author: Ashley L. Sullivan,Laurie L. Urraro
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783030134839

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This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches. The book marries theory and praxis, submitting to current and future teachers a text that not only presents authentic narratives about trans children in early childhood education, but also analyzes the forces at work behind gender policing, gender segregation, and transphobic education policies. As the struggles and triumphs of trans individuals have reached a watershed moment in the social fabric of the United States, this text offers a snapshot into the lives of ten transgender people as they reflect on their earliest memories in the American educational system.

Radically Listening to Transgender Children

Radically Listening to Transgender Children
Author: Katie Steele,Julie Nicholson
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781498590389

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This book is for early childhood educators committed to learning about gender [in]justice as a foundation for creating gender affirming early learning environments for all children including those who are transgender and gender expansive (TGE). The authors engage in progressive and contemporary thinking about gender acknowledging its complexity, intersectionality, diversity and dynamism. They draw on Miranda Fricker’s (2007) concepts of testimonial injustice to discuss how young TGE children are considered “too young” to have gender identities or to truly know themselves and hermeneutical injustice to represent the challenges TGE children face in educational environments that do not provide them with linguistic or interpretive tools to help them fully understand and communicate about their gender. Woven throughout the book are the lived experiences and counter-stories of TGE children and adults that privilege their voices and highlight their right to contribute equally to societal understandings of gender and to access all the tools a given society has available at the time to help them name and understand their own experiences.The authors provide discourse, conceptual frameworks and concrete strategies educators can use to inspire resistant social imaginations (Medina, 2013) and actions that improve gender justice for our youngest children.

Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms

Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms
Author: Julie Nicholson,Julia Hennock,Jonathan Julian,Cyndi Maurer,Nathanael Flynn,Encian Pastel,Katie Steele,Tess Unger
Publsiher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781784509149

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By offering practical steps for adults who work with young children to build inclusive and intentional spaces where all children receive positive messages about their unique gender selves, this book increases awareness about gender diversity in learning environments such as child care centres, family child care homes and preschools. The book is based on some of the most progressive, modern understandings of gender and intersectionality, as well as research on child development, gender health, trauma informed practices and the science of adult learning. By including the voices and lived experiences of gender-expansive children, transgender adults, early childhood educators and parents and family members of trans and gender-expansive children, it contextualizes what it means to rethink early learning programs with a commitment to gender justice and gender equality for all children.

Honoring Trans and Gender Expansive Students in Music Education

Honoring Trans and Gender Expansive Students in Music Education
Author: Matthew L. Garrett,Joshua Palkki
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780197506622

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Trans and gender-expansive (TGE) youth deserve a safe and empowering space to engage in high quality school music experiences. Supportive music teachers ensure that all students have access to ethically and pedagogically sound music education. In this practical resource, authors Matthew L. Garrett (he/him) and Joshua Palkki (he/him) encourage music educators to honor gender diversity through ethically and pedagogically sound practices across choral, instrumental, and general music classroom environments by highlighting the narratives and experiences of TGE musicians.

The Early Childhood Educator

The Early Childhood Educator
Author: Rachel Langford,Brooke Richardson
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781350267213

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Across the globe the work of early childhood educators, who are predominantly women, is misunderstood, underpaid and undervalued. Perspectives on early childhood educators are highly contentious: are they child development experts, oppressed workers, maternal substitutes, technicians, facilitators of early learning, or something else? This volume features chapter authors from Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the USA and New Zealand, examine a range of contemporary feminist theories in relation to the early childhood educator. The feminist theories covered include materialist feminism, poststructural feminism, decolonizing feminisms, posthumanist feminism, new materialist feminism, feminist ethics of care, womanist feminism, postcolonial feminism, femme theory and feminist queer theory. The editors of the volume offer an introduction and commentaries that explore solidarities and tensions between the feminisms to generate critical conversations about the work, lived experiences, and agency of early childhood educators. The volume contributes to shifting understandings of the early childhood educator in the contexts of culture, practice, policy and politics.

Keeping up with the Times

Keeping up with the Times
Author: Mari Riojas-Cortez
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781475853605

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How do we begin to understand diversity in early childhood in order to combat biases? There are many layers of diversity within families that are important to examine. We must consider ethnic diversity first and foremost as we engage in a conversation regarding diversity, as we know (or should know) the history of people of color in the US and the challenges and adversities that we have experienced. In the context of this book, understanding diversity begins with positioning a definition that encompasses the realities of many families particularly across the US such as immigration status, gender, family structure, sexual identity, class, and spiritual beliefs. We also see the importance to talking about race within the context of early childhood.

A House for Everyone

A House for Everyone
Author: Jo Hirst
Publsiher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781784508234

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At lunchtime, all of Tom's friends gather at school to work together building their house. Each one of them has a special job to do, and each one of them has a different way of expressing their gender identity. Jackson is a boy who likes to wear dresses. Ivy is a girl who likes her hair cut really short. Alex doesn't feel like 'just' a boy, or 'just' a girl. They are all the same, they are all different - but they are all friends. A very simple story that challenges gender stereotypes and shows 4 to 8 year olds that it is OK to be yourself. An engaging story that is more than just an educational tool; this book will assist parents and teachers in giving children the space to explore the full spectrum of gender diversity and will show children the many ways they can express their gender in a truly positive light.

My Son Wears Heels

My Son Wears Heels
Author: Julie Tarney
Publsiher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299310608

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A loving mother shares her journey of parenting a gender creative child, from toddler to adult.