Gender Expansion In Early Childhood Education Book Launch and Discussion

Join us to celebrate the launch of Dr Rachel Chapman’s newly released book based on her research that explores the contexts for gender identity development in early childhood education. It outlines a research study that examined how early childhood educators' views on children's gender identity influence their practice in the Australian early childhood education sector. It utilises feminist post-structuralism, queer theory and performativity as theoretical approaches underpinning the research, and feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis and thematic analysis as methods of analysis. It captures the voices of educators and developers of curriculum documents to explore how gender expansive environments can be created when this is positioned as contentious, socially and politically. It identifies discourses that enable and constrain the building of pro-diversity spaces and contexts in early childhood education. It considers how to disrupt gender binaries and normative notions of gender, and promote the deployment of discursive agency - all essential aspects of expansive work on gender in early childhood contexts in Australia and other countries.

https://www.booktopia.com.au/gender-expansion-in-early-childhood-education-rachel-chapman/book/9783031467974.html

Following the generous sharing from Dr Rachel Chapman, we will engage in an open discussion around the themes, questions and impact this can have on our practice and services.

Please note: Under ECA Victorian Branch’s Special Interest Groups Policy members of a SIG must be either individual or organisational members of Early Childhood Australia. Attendees are welcome to attend one forum as a non-member; thereafter membership (either individual or organisation) is required.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Melbourne Polytechnic (Preston Campus), 77 Saint Georges Road, Preston, Australia