Journal article
Civic action and play: examples from Maori, Aboriginal Australian and Latino communities
Early Child Development and Care, Vol.187(5-6), pp.798-811
03/06/2017
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Abstract
Using data from an international, comparative study of civic action in preschools in New Zealand, Australia and the US, we consider some of the types of civic action that are possible when time and space are offered for children to use their agency to initiate, work together and collectively pursue ideas and things that are important to the group. We use an example from each country and apply the work of Rancière and Arendt to think about collectivity as civic action in young children's schooling lives. Play, rather than an act itself, is positioned here as political time and space that make such civic action possible in the everyday lives of children. We argue here that play is the most common (and endangered) time and space in which children act for the collective.
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- Title
- Civic action and play: examples from Maori, Aboriginal Australian and Latino communities
- Creators
- Jennifer Keys Adair - College of Education, The University of Texas at AustinLouise Phillips - School of Education, The University of QueenslandJenny Ritchie - School of Education, Victoria University of WellingtonShubhi Sachdeva - College of Education, The University of Texas at Austin
- Publication Details
- Early Child Development and Care, Vol.187(5-6), pp.798-811
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- This work was funded by the Spencer Foundation
- Identifiers
- 991012931700102368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article