When One of "Them" Is in "Our" Place: Early Childhood Settings as Spaces of Resistance

Autor/in	Arndt, Sonja
Titel	When One of "Them" Is in "Our" Place: Early Childhood Settings as Spaces of Resistance
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 17 (2016) 2, S.147-156 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.1177/1463949116647289
Schlagwörter	Preschool Teachers; Immigrants; Early Childhood Education; Social Attitudes; Social Theories; Foreign Countries; Philosophy; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Ausland; Philosophie; Neuseeland
Abstract	When "they" come to "us" in "our" place, what happens, for "them" and for "us"? This article investigates conceptions of Otherness through the story of an immigrant early childhood teacher, seen as the stranger, foreigner, who comes to "our" place, our early childhood setting. It provokes and challenges orientations, towards teacher-foreigners in a teaching team, towards difference and towards considerations of "our" place, as culturally drenched in local knowledges, values and practices, as relationally complex and as a possible site of resistance. This article disturbs and complicates dominant constructions of the Other by positing teacher-subjects through a Kristevan lens as dynamic and constantly evolving. Tracings of Kristeva's philosophical influences and treatments of Otherness help to present entangled historicised, contemporary and future insights into the recognition and marginalisation of teacher-foreigners. Finally, the teacher's story becomes further challenged with Kristeva's suggestion that each one of us is a foreigner inside, Other to ourselves, when "they" come to "us", in "our" place. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01