Early Childhood Educators’ Understandings of How Young Children Perform Gender During Unstructured Play

Abstract

Dr. Sarah Reddington is an assistant professor in the Child and Youth Study Department at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research in the field of critical gender and disability studies is concerned with the relationship between early childhood education practices and how Westernized forms of representation impact children’s subjectivities and life courses. Sarah’s work engages with poststructural thinking, affect theory, posthumanism, Deleuzoguattarian theory, queer theory, diffraction, and new materialism to challenge the conditions of marginalization and oppression. Email: Sarah.Reddington@msvu.ca