Navigating Reconceptualist and Feminist Ethics of Care Scholarship to Find a Conceptual Space for Rethinking Children’s Needs in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Rachel Langford is a professor emeritus in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University. From 2006 to 2016 she served as the School’s director. Her research and scholarly work focus on childcare advocacy and policy development, workforce professionalization, and conceptualizations of care and caregiving in early childhood education. She is the lead editor of the UBC Press publication Caring for Children: Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada (2017) and the editor of a Bloomsbury Academic Education Press edited volume, Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice: Possibilities and Dangers (2019). Email: rlangfor@ryerson.ca