Re- and detraditionalising maternalism and women’s work in ECEC
(2006) Re- and detraditionalising maternalism and women’s work in ECEC . In Proceedings Asia Pacific Education Research Association, Hong Kong.
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Abstract
For citizens of nations functioning with advanced liberal, knowledge-based economies a dominant theme is the exhortation to become reflexive, self-maximising subjects. This reflexive and self-maximising subject, who is increasingly thought of as separated from institutional and structural constraint as a free and individual agent, has become the valorised citizen of western politics and policy. Some researchers regard this shift in understanding of citizenship as a detraditionalisation; or an unhooking of traditional social roles and relationships, such as gender, from individuals. Others argue that it is instead a more complex process of both detraditionalisation and retraditionalisation; that is ‘unhookings’ combined and in conflict with reinforcings of ‘tradition’. One site in which these shifts in thinking about subjectivity can be explicated is in the arena of women’s labour, motherhood and ECEC. This paper seeks to make an analysis of the way in which Australian governments are ‘problematising’ ECEC in advanced liberalism, taking account of the complex combination of detraditionalisation and retraditionalisation across women’s labour, motherhood and ECEC policy.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Unpublished |
| Keywords: | early childhood education and care; feminism; teachers |
| Subjects: | 330000 Education > 330100 Education Studies |
| ID Code: | 1548 |
| Deposited By: | Ailwood, Jo |
| Deposited On: | 18 January 2007 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 (please consult author) |