Felicity McArdle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5026893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity McArdle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | McArdle |
| SIGNATURE | MCARDLE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3526-0844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governing child care in neoliberal times
At any given time in the field of early childhood, there are discourses at play, producing images of children, and these ways of seeing children might be competing, colliding and/or complementing each other. It is fairly widely accepted that in many countries there are versions of dominant discourses that shape and are shaped by current practices in the field of early childhood. These include (1) romantic notions of children running free and conn…
Multiculturalism, education for sustainable development (ESD) and the shifting discursive landscape of social inclusion
Australia has a long and sometimes turbulent relationship with the migrant Other. This paper examines a component of this relationship via the window of contemporary multicultural policy. The paper begins with an analysis of the political and social conditions that enabled a national and bipartisan policy of multiculturalism to emerge as formalised federal policy during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The paper re-problematises the influences tha…
Stories of Teaching
Liberal humanism maintains its appeal to teachers who desire democratic classrooms, full of happy busy children, learning through play, choice, and freedom and self expression. However, these etachers continually find themselves in uneasy moments, where competing discourses collide, and they are forced to make decisions between numbers of conflicting 'common sense' notions
Teaching Notes
This chapter works to provide a space beyond the predictable discourses of early childhood education in order to interrogate the social practices of teachers and children. What is presented in this chapter is not a collection of dispassionately observed facts but one person's reconstruction of some important language ‘moments’, in the lived experience of a few Year One children. Through the use of pastiche and collage as the medium for ‘displayin…
From balance to blasphemy
This paper seeks to make trouble for the metaphor of ‘balance’ in early childhood education research, drawing on the arguments of Gore (, ), Haraway (), McWilliam (), and a study (McArdle, ) that was designed to focus not only on teacher practice, but also to inquire into ways of speaking teacher practice. Our rationale for trouble‐making is to ask questions about the way that the imperative to ‘balance’ disallows the investigation of pedagogy as…
From balance to blasphemy
This paper seeks to make trouble for the metaphor of ‘balance’ in early childhood education research, drawing on the arguments of Gore (, ), Haraway (), McWilliam (), and a study (McArdle, ) that was designed to focus not only on teacher practice, but also to inquire into ways of speaking teacher practice. Our rationale for trouble‐making is to ask questions about the way that the imperative to ‘balance’ disallows the investigation of pedagogy as…
Governing child care in neoliberal times
At any given time in the field of early childhood, there are discourses at play, producing images of children, and these ways of seeing children might be competing, colliding and/or complementing each other. It is fairly widely accepted that in many countries there are versions of dominant discourses that shape and are shaped by current practices in the field of early childhood. These include (1) romantic notions of children running free and conn…
Multiculturalism, education for sustainable development (ESD) and the shifting discursive landscape of social inclusion
Australia has a long and sometimes turbulent relationship with the migrant Other. This paper examines a component of this relationship via the window of contemporary multicultural policy. The paper begins with an analysis of the political and social conditions that enabled a national and bipartisan policy of multiculturalism to emerge as formalised federal policy during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The paper re-problematises the influences tha…
Teaching Notes
This chapter works to provide a space beyond the predictable discourses of early childhood education in order to interrogate the social practices of teachers and children. What is presented in this chapter is not a collection of dispassionately observed facts but one person's reconstruction of some important language ‘moments’, in the lived experience of a few Year One children. Through the use of pastiche and collage as the medium for ‘displayin…
From balance to blasphemy
This paper seeks to make trouble for the metaphor of ‘balance’ in early childhood education research, drawing on the arguments of Gore (, ), Haraway (), McWilliam (), and a study (McArdle, ) that was designed to focus not only on teacher practice, but also to inquire into ways of speaking teacher practice. Our rationale for trouble‐making is to ask questions about the way that the imperative to ‘balance’ disallows the investigation of pedagogy as…
Stories of Teaching
Liberal humanism maintains its appeal to teachers who desire democratic classrooms, full of happy busy children, learning through play, choice, and freedom and self expression. However, these etachers continually find themselves in uneasy moments, where competing discourses collide, and they are forced to make decisions between numbers of conflicting 'common sense' notions
Multiculturalism, education for sustainable development (ESD) and the shifting discursive landscape of social inclusion
Australia has a long and sometimes turbulent relationship with the migrant Other. This paper examines a component of this relationship via the window of contemporary multicultural policy. The paper begins with an analysis of the political and social conditions that enabled a national and bipartisan policy of multiculturalism to emerge as formalised federal policy during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The paper re-problematises the influences tha…
Governing child care in neoliberal times
At any given time in the field of early childhood, there are discourses at play, producing images of children, and these ways of seeing children might be competing, colliding and/or complementing each other. It is fairly widely accepted that in many countries there are versions of dominant discourses that shape and are shaped by current practices in the field of early childhood. These include (1) romantic notions of children running free and conn…
Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Early childhood education (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works)