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- Title
Difference in the sandpits of the South Pacific: Learning from Albert Camus.
- Authors
Gibbons, Andrew
- Abstract
A brief to think of the past, present and future of early childhood education in the Pacific and Asia is taken in this paper to think of the nature of early childhood education in relation to perspectives on difference. The problem of difference arises often in early childhood education discourse as a negative condition to be resolved, as an escapable given, and/or as a challenge to perceived inequity. This paper engages with educational themes in the work of humanism and post-humanism that speak to the problem of difference. The work of Albert Camus is explored in order to make sense of difference in relation to the challenges put upon being human that he encountered during the 20th century. Camus' relationships to his world are engaged because they present a careful approach to debates that reveal the plurality of approaches to early childhood education in a region with many cultural traditions of caring and educating. The writing of this paper is guided by a belief that it is appropriate to be suspicious of any kind of talk of education that embeds norms and limits possibilities. The paper concludes with some thoughts about being that play out in the common space of the sandpit.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; EARLY childhood education; CAMUS, Albert, 1913-1960; SOCIAL norms; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL planning
- Publication
Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 2, p45
- ISSN
1019-8725
- Publication type
Article