The purpose of this book is to imagine things otherwise in theorizing childhood subjectivity.
The work brings together influential thinkers who are forthright in their refusal to be seduced
by simplistic binaries who are willing to address the notion of childhood subjectivity in ways
that are complex and critical and whose arguments lead to practical advances in our thinking
about child policy child-rearing pedagogy and curriculum. The contributors distinguished
authors from across the English-speaking world are concerned about the ways in which teachers'
practices are increasingly boundaried and policed and they grieve for the stifling
consequences for future generations of children. Postcolonial and poststructural theories
psychoanalysis critical theory personal narrative and indigenous epistemologies are used
creatively to pose the question of childhood subjectivity and to engage the promise of the
question-child. This work contributes to a reconsideration of childhood and a rethinking of how
we might enhance each child's journey toward becoming.
