ERIC Number: EJ1365519
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-May
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Weaving Child-Plastic Relations with Early Childhood Educators in the Ecuadorian Andes
Berry, Alex
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, v47 n5 Article 6 p80-95 May 2022
In a small village in the Ecuadorian Andes called Racar, plastics are intimately woven into social and ecological structures. These entanglements move beyond human control and generate toxic dependencies between humans, plastics, and others. This requires a pedagogical shift in how early childhood educators understand and respond to plastics. Drawing on field research with educators in Racar, this paper attempts to interrupt human-centric discourses of the child as separate from Andean ecologies and resituates childhoods as differentially embedded in complex place relations.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plastics, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Ecology, Children, Place Based Education, Rural Areas, Sanitation
Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ecuador
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