Pookey, "Poory," Power: An Agentic Powerformance

Autor/in	Srinivasan, Prasanna
Titel	Pookey, "Poory," Power: An Agentic Powerformance
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 20 (2019) 2, S.121-132 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.1177/1463949118759979
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Children; Individual Power; Foreign Countries; Performance; Social Structure; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Eigeninitiative; Ausland; Achievement; Leistung; Sozialstruktur; Australien
Abstract	Early childhood curricular documents in countries such as Australia position children's voice and agency as central to all early childhood practices. Children's choices expressed by their voices are regarded as children's exhibition of their agency. Hence, early childhood educators are urged to listen and respond to children's voices, and such 'listened' responses are applauded as educators' acknowledgement of children's agency. Moreover, recognition of children's agency is also seen as accepting children as individuals capable of making preferences and choices, like adults. In this article, the author argues that children's agency and voice cannot be conceptualised in their absolute, individualistic terms, and such simplistic consideration only results in diminishing children's capacity as political enactors. In doing so, the author does not obliterate the presence of agency and voice. However, it is suggested that children's agency and voice should be viewed as performances attached to power. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01