Kenneth A. Loparo & K. Davis 
Race and Early Childhood Education 
An International Approach to Identity, Politics, and Pedagogy

This book critiques the often presumed racial innocence of young children. The authors challenge early childhood educators to engage with the racialized identity politics that form among their students, and to reform their own identities and intersect and frame children’s identities throughout their earliest years.

Table of Content

Thinking Differently: The Call and the Desire; G.Mac Naughton & K.Davis PART I: EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF CHILDREN’S RACIALIZED IDENTITIES Discourses of ‘Race’ in Early Childhood: From Cognition to Power; G.Mac Naughton & K.Davis Exploring ‘Race-identities’ with Young Children: Making Politics Visible; G.Mac Naughton , K.Davis , & K.Smith Intersecting Identities: Fantasy, Popular Culture and Feminised Race-Gender; G.Mac Naughton & K.Davis Masculinities, Mateship, and Young Boys; K.Davis & G.Mac Naughton The Dynamics of Whiteness: Children Locating Within/Without; K.Davis & G.Mac Naughton PART II: EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF ADULTS’ RACIALIZED IDENTITIES (Un)masking Cultural Identities: a Challenge for White Early Childhood Educators; K.Davis On Race and Resistance: Transforming Racialised Identities: A Personal Journey; M.Cruz Adults Constructing the Young Child, Race, and Racism; S.Atkinson Languages Matter: My Subjective Postcolonial Struggle; P.Srinivasan Working within, beyond and through the Divides: Hopes and Possibilities for De-‘racing’ Early Childhood; S.Atkinson , M.Cruz , K.Davis , P.Srivinasan & G.Mac Naughton

About the author

GLENDA MACNAUGHTON is Director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Australia and has researched around issues of cultural diversity and ‘race’ in the early childhood field for over 15 years.

KARINA DAVIS is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, Australia.