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Reconstructing professionalism in Ecec

The Case for the 'Critically Reflective Emotional Professional

Bibliographic Data

ID5772602
AuthorsJayne Osgood (0000-0001-9424-8602, London Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume30
Issue2
Pages119-133
Publication date2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEarly Years (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-5146 • E-ISSN: 1472-4421
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09575146.2010.490905
OpenAlexW2089543031
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited36

This paper is concerned to present professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) as a sociocultural construction. In particular the article is concerned with how professional identities are inflected by autobiography and the spaces and opportunities that exist for the construction of alternative professional identities. Drawing on a recent empirical study with nursery workers in London a critical appraisal of hegemonic discourses is presented and a consideration of 'professionalism from within' is offered. A specific focus is placed upon the notion of the 'critically reflective emotional professional' and how that might be taken up or resisted at different levels of the ECEC policy-practitioner landscape

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