Views from Somewhere

Situated Knowledges and Partial Perspectives in a Hong Kong Kindergarten Classroom

Bibliographic Data

ID13005684
AuthorsMindy Blaise (0000-0003-2476-9407, Education University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Wai Man Vivienne Leung (0000-0002-2261-5175, Education University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Chunrong Sun (Education University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume3
Issue1
Pages12-25
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2304/gsch.2013.3.1.12
OpenAlexW2324142532
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

This article demonstrates an engaged situated methodology by drawing from an exploratory study of literacy activities in a Hong Kong kindergarten classroom. Bringing together feminist understandings of situated knowledges and Asian critical cultural studies ideas about ‘Asia as method’, the authors recognize that all aspects of knowledge production are situated individually and globally. The authors work with their different positionalities by dialoguing across partial viewpoints. This strategy of inter-referencing begins to blur hierarchical and binary thinking about insider/outsider perspectives and Western/Chinese pedagogies. Working with dialoguing and inter-referencing across partial perspectives, the authors enact de-colonizing and de-imperializing methodologies to develop new reflexive and transformative knowledge practices

Epistemology · Insider · Literacy · Nexus (standard · Pedagogy · Reflexivity · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Multilingual Education and Policy

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