Resistance and Representation: Rethinking Childhood Education provides a critical
cross-cultural narrative of early childhood education at the end of the twentieth century.
Contributors from the United States Canada and the Pacific Rim explore issues of identity and
practice in early childhood education employing feminist critical and postmodern
perspectives in understanding the lives of young children their parents and their teachers.
Through their multilayered narratives the scholars included in this book share their
understandings of how theoretical shifts and understandings have impacted their thinking about
early childhood research and practice and their thoughts about issues of research
representation and resistance. The contributors' writings point to the importance of feminist
critical and postmodern theory as frames for early childhood research and reflect the broad
array of perspectives on curricular social and pedagogical issues within the early childhood
field.
