Abstract
Expanding the important body of work that addresses child development’s limitations and responding to the ecological crisis that threatens the future of life on Earth, this article proposes a living feminist postdevelopmental lexicon. The lexicon introduces 26 concepts that together challenge the theory/practice divide, disrupt Cartesian modes of subjectivity, reorient taken-for-granted ideas as problematic in early education, open up early education to inquiries that respond to the political and ethical questions of our milieu, and generate conditions for creative, inventive, thoughtful, and ethical projects. The paper invites readers to engage with and creatively add to the lexicon, making it an emerging and living tool for responding to the current ecological crisis.
RAS ID
78837
Document Type
Journal Article
Volume
127
Issue
2
School
Centre for People, Place and Planet
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Publisher
Sage
Identifier
Mindy Blaise: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407
Comments
Blaise, M., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2025). A living feminist postdevelopmental lexicon for early education. Teachers College Record, 127(2), 163-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681251334785