Open this publication in new window or tab >>2020 (English)In: Gender and Education, ISSN 0954-0253, E-ISSN 1360-0516, Vol. 32, no 5, p. 608-625Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
his article explores gendered processes in preschool science through Barad’s agential realism [2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics of the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. London: Duke Universal Press], and as such, the study makes both theoretical and empirical contributions in how it combines perspectives from emergent science [Siraj-Blatchford, J. 2001. Emergent Science and Technology in the Early Years.” Paper presented at the XXIII World Congress of OMEP. Santiago, Chile, August 3], new materialism, and gender theory. Empirically, the study makes use of data constructed during a field study in a Swedish preschool with five-year-old children. The focus of the field study was the children’s play and explorations together with the preschool environment, during activities not specifically guided by teachers. The analysis highlights how the children’s identities and scientific explorations are made possible as well as constrained together with the preschool’s material-discursive environment. As such, the study demonstrates how teachers cannot rely on any environment, activity, choice or subject content to be (gender) neutral.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2020
Keywords
emergent science and technology; gender; preschool environment; material-discursive; knowing-in-being
National Category
Didactics
Research subject
Curriculum Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44630 (URN)10.1080/09540253.2019.1632809 (DOI)000474119100001 ()2-s2.0-85068234535 (Scopus ID)
2021-03-252021-03-252025-10-07Bibliographically approved