The Scholarship of Jonathan Silin: A Reading through the Lens of Sexuality. (March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Grieshaber, Susan
• Is Part Of: Contemporary issues in early childhood. Volume 14:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 12
• Page End: 13
• Publication Date: 2013-03
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Early childhood education -- Periodicals; Children -- Periodicals; Social work with children -- Periodicals; 305.231
• DOI: 10.2304/ciec.2014.14.1.12
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1463-9491

Abstract

While Jonathan Silin's ideas have challenged early childhood educators to think seriously about the relationship between developmentalism and revisioning early education, they have done much more than this. They also challenge us to know who we are and how our identities might be enacted in our teacher-selves, whether in the classroom with young children, teacher education students or engaging professionally with teachers. In doing so he shows how to resist injustice and unmasks ways in which institutions function in society to marginalise and exclude.