APPROACHING THE COMPLEX SPATIALITIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE SYSTEMS FROM THE POSITION OF THE CHILD

• Authors: Bollig Sabine
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper proposes a way to understand what early care and education systems look like from the vantage point of the child. In other words, it aims to fuse a system perspective and a child perspective of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in a way that acknowledges children as active co-producers of ECEC landscapes. In developing this approach, the author emphasizes that children’s individual education and care arrangements which combine certain ECEC settings and the family are to be understood as networks of relations. As such, these child, family and ECEC relations create particular spatialities and temporalities which in turn position children very differently within the field of early education and care. To conceptualize how this takes place in children’s everyday activities, she refers to Schatzki’s and Massey’s relational thinking about practices, spaces, time and multiple identities with special emphasis on the spatial relations that are ‘beyond’ certain localities and (re)produced in the ‘events of place’. How this helps to understand the ways in which ECEC systems look from the position of the child will get exemplified in regard to Luxembourg’s complex ‘double split system’ of ECEC and its complex language terrain.

Keywords

EN

ECEC; SPATIAL APPROACHES; CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVE; EARLY CHILDHOOD

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 155 – 176

Contributors

author

Bollig Sabine

• University of Trier, Department of Education, Section Social Pedagogy, Trier, 54284, Germany

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2018-0008