Local Childhoods in Global Times

Anette Hellman, Susanne Garvis, Anette Hellman, Susanne Garvis

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781789386073
• eBook ISBN: 9781789386080
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Children's Studies in Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book presents different perspectives of childhood. With contributors from across the globe there are examples of local childhoods from different national contexts including America, Australia, Finland, Hong-Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Norway and Sweden. 

Each chapter presents a different focus on early childhood showing the diversity and complexity across multiple countries. Issues emerge around multi-language development, nationalism and multiculturalism. Across the chapters, concepts around cultural theories of every-day life also show the ways in which practices of and in relation to children function to produce childhood as an artefact, fiction and instrument.

It helps readers to develop an understanding of how changing perspectives on children and childhood and identity are expressed among children, families and educators in and outside educational environments. It brings together active researchers in the field of global childhoods to sustain and develop our community of research and scholarship, promoting internationalization through global childhoods as a way of cultural diversity and acceptance.

The book reflects on early childhood before and leading up to Covid-19. The editors were able to create a historical snapshot of early childhood pre-Covid from several countries. The pandemic has demanded major changes around learning, agency, voice and lived experience for children around the world. In some countries there are children in lockdown, without access to learning and who have ceased to be recognised as a child. In other countries life has continued with social distancing and masks in educational spaces.

It will be a useful resource for students and academics in early childhood education and education studies more generally, as well as practitioners and educators.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Local Childhoods in Global Times
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• 1 Globalization and Child Education: Research in Early Childhood Education Through Five Decades
• 2 Transitioning Into Formal Education: One on the Journey to Achieve SDG 4
• 3 Raising Children’s Sustainability Consciousness
• 4 The Good Childhood in the Nordic Countries: Insider and Outsider Perspectives
• 5 Children Taking Their Place in the Institutional Practice Through Their Photographic Voice
• 6 Children Doing and Undoing Gender during the Circle-Time: Stories From a Kindergarten in Indonesia
• 7 ‘I Have Always Been Speaking Finnish With My Children’: Supporting Children’s Heritage Language
• 8 Becoming a Respectable Future Citizen: Norms on Ideal Bodies, Food and Eating Among Children in Indonesian, Japanese and Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care
• 9 Teaching Language Learners in the Science Classroom: A Case Study in a Norwegian Secondary School
• 10 Everyday Life, National Crises and the Practice of Global Childhoods
• 11 Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Needs in the Time of Coronavirus: Norms on Children Among Finnish and Swedish ECEC Teachers
• Epilogue: Some Concluding Thoughts
• Contributors
• Back Cover