ERIC Number: EJ1470065
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
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A Posthumanist Critical Multilogue: Storytelling as Bicultural Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v38 n4 p571-587 2025
A posthumanist critical multilogue may be understood as a many-voiced conversation where the concept of voice encompasses multiple ways of expressing in networks of enmeshed relations among humans and non-humans. A multilogue is critical when power relations are mapped, and posthumanist when contributions to multilogue conversations emerge from relations among human and non-human agencies. During research into how bicultural teaching and learning is lived in one early childhood education setting, teachers shared accounts of children engaging playfully with the Maori "purakau"/story of Hatupatu and Kurangaituku (Birdwoman). A posthumanist critical multilogue explores what might be produced in critical, curious, and creative entanglements of Maori and posthumanist concepts and theories, policies and practices of bicultural teaching and learning, and human and non-human bodies. Through transversal processes wandering from children to teachers, to communities, landscapes, and histories, creative possibilities are glimpsed.
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Early Childhood Education, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Learning Processes, Creativity, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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Author Affiliations: 1Early Childhood, Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand