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- Title
Crossing thresholds: Imagining community and immigrant otherness in early childhood education.
- Authors
Arndt, Sonja
- Abstract
This paper analyses conceptualisations of community in relation to immigrant others within early childhood environments, through specific concerns arising in the discourse. Rooted in the social and political bicultural climate of Aotearoa/New Zealand, this analysis highlights tensions arising in dominant orientations towards community. A range of perspectives complicate the analysis, supported by illustrations of the intimate raw, burning sensations of being a foreigner to explicate the importance of reconceptualising notions of community. The examination of community contests the dominant orientation where it is constructed as an entity, and offers fresh insights where it is considered to be an act of engagement. In its conclusion, the paper suggests an approach to community as a committed encounter, not only with the other, but, through the other, with all of humanity.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; EARLY childhood education; IMMIGRANTS; IMMIGRATION status; HUMANITY; COMMUNITY development
- Publication
Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
1019-8725
- Publication type
Article