Critical Consciousness, Social Justice and Resistance: The Experiences of Young Children Living on the Streets in India reports on an investigation of critical consciousness and social justice conducted with young children living on the streets in Mumbai, India. The book explores how children—through complex, layered and diverse forms of resistant behaviours—struggled against, challenged, and at times, transformed the experiences of structural inequality, injustice and oppression they often faced in their everyday lives. Drawing on insights from critical pedagogy, the study argues that educators can work in solidarity with children, families and communities to transform—rather than simply adapt—to situations of oppression that exist both within and outside of educational contexts. It is argued that practitioners and policy makers open genuine spaces for educational endeavours that value children’s dignity, understand resistant behaviour as a form of communication, and focus on transformative resistance as a praxis of citizenship.
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Critical Consciousness, Social Justice and Resistance explores how street children – through complex, layered and diverse forms of resistant behaviours – struggled against, challenged, and at times, transformed the experiences of structural inequality, injustice and oppression they often faced in their everyday lives.
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List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Permissions – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: We Are the Stories We Tell – Critical Education for Critical Times – Theory for Knowing and Changing the System – Critical Consciousness and Social Justice in Early Childhood – Researching with Young Children Living on the Streets – The Indian Context – The Stories We Tell – Resistance for Social Justice and Critical Consciousness – Summary: If Gandhi was a Child in Your Classroom.
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ISBN
9781433168437
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Vekt
519 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
150 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Zinnia Mevawalla is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Canberra. Her research concentrates on understanding how initiatives in the early years can support participation, inclusion and equity for all.