TY - JOUR
T1 - Pursuing better childhoods and futures through curriculum
T2 - Utopian visions in the development of Australia's Early Years Learning Framework
AU - Sumsion, Jennifer
AU - Grieshaber, Susan
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = Global Studies of Childhood. ISSNs: 2043-6106;
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In recent years, globalised curriculum discourses have given rise to local curriculum texts that convey and produce particularised imagininings and narratives, as well as hopes for, and expectations of, young children, their childhoods and their futures. In this article, we employ concepts from utopian studies and Deleuzeguattarian concepts of assemblage, rhizomes and lines (supple, rigid, and lines of flight) to undertake a preliminary and partial rhizomatic mapping of utopian visions of better childhoods and futures evident in the development of the Early Years Learning Framework, Australia's first national curriculum for early childhood settings. Drawing on the perspective of policy makers, News Corporation, the public, politicians, academics and practitioners who shaped the development of the Framework, we seek alternatives to the well-rehearsed dichotomies that so often characterise and confine curriculum politics and debates, and ways of exploring spaces between the possible and not (yet) possible.
AB - In recent years, globalised curriculum discourses have given rise to local curriculum texts that convey and produce particularised imagininings and narratives, as well as hopes for, and expectations of, young children, their childhoods and their futures. In this article, we employ concepts from utopian studies and Deleuzeguattarian concepts of assemblage, rhizomes and lines (supple, rigid, and lines of flight) to undertake a preliminary and partial rhizomatic mapping of utopian visions of better childhoods and futures evident in the development of the Early Years Learning Framework, Australia's first national curriculum for early childhood settings. Drawing on the perspective of policy makers, News Corporation, the public, politicians, academics and practitioners who shaped the development of the Framework, we seek alternatives to the well-rehearsed dichotomies that so often characterise and confine curriculum politics and debates, and ways of exploring spaces between the possible and not (yet) possible.
KW - Open access version available
U2 - 10.2304/gsch.2012.2.3.230
DO - 10.2304/gsch.2012.2.3.230
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 230
EP - 244
JO - Global Studies of Childhood
JF - Global Studies of Childhood
SN - 2043-6106
IS - 3
ER -