Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: History, Pedagogy, and Liberation

Introduction Part A: Kaupapa M?ori Early Childhood Care and Education 1: Working with Deleuzian Theories in a Counter-colonial Project: Re-positioning M?ori language in Early Years Education 2: Policy and Inhibiters of Bicultural/Bilingual Advancement 3: Pedagogies . . . Part B: Indigenising 'Whitestream' Early Childhood Care and Education Practice in Aotearoa 4: Contextual Explorations Introduction Promises, promises . . . Te Tiriti and Te Wh?riki as ethical visions Settler assumption of sovereignty Progressive traditions 'Flaxroots' early childhood education and care services M?ori Pre-schools Chance to be equal Repositioning te Ao M?ori as central to education New right enmeshment with liberal social policies Neo-liberal discursive era References 5: Overviewing Documents Background Guidance from further Ministry of Education documents Shifts seen in recent research M?ori 'Beingness' as a source of potentiality Concluding thoughts 6: A counter-colonial pedagogy of affect in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand Background Methodology Data examples Conclusion Conclusion