scholarly journals 'This may not be represented in the curriculum documents’, an analysis of early childhood education curriculum from Ontario college programs.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gosson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
College Programs

This study examines the way in which Early Childhood Educators trained in Ontario college programs are prepared to work with queer populations upon entering the field. This study used post-structuralist, queer feminist, and critical disability theoretical frameworks while analysing the data. A content analysis, informed by critical discourse analysis, was used to assess program documents. Course descriptions from ECE program websites were collected, as well as a total of 33 course outlines from 11 different Ontario college ECE programs, and 9 textbooks identified through the course outlines. Queer content was found to be absent from all but 5 course outlines and 4 textbooks. The need to have queer issues included formally in Ontario ECE curriculum, the othering of queer populations, and the erasure of queer identities are discussed. Key

scholarly journals 'This may not be represented in the curriculum documents’, an analysis of early childhood education curriculum from Ontario college programs.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gosson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
College Programs

This study examines the way in which Early Childhood Educators trained in Ontario college programs are prepared to work with queer populations upon entering the field. This study used post-structuralist, queer feminist, and critical disability theoretical frameworks while analysing the data. A content analysis, informed by critical discourse analysis, was used to assess program documents. Course descriptions from ECE program websites were collected, as well as a total of 33 course outlines from 11 different Ontario college ECE programs, and 9 textbooks identified through the course outlines. Queer content was found to be absent from all but 5 course outlines and 4 textbooks. The need to have queer issues included formally in Ontario ECE curriculum, the othering of queer populations, and the erasure of queer identities are discussed. Key

Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized early childhood educators in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Alana Powell ◽  
Rachel Langford ◽  
Patrizia Albanese ◽  
Susan Prentice ◽  
Kate Bezanson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Maternal Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Care Burden ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care

In the Canadian province of Ontario, the early childhood education and care workforce continues to be undervalued, underpaid and burdened with challenging working conditions. Drawing on Fairclough and Lazar, this study employed a feminist critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses of care work present in the 2018 childcare platforms of three major parties: the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. This critical discourse analysis provided an opportunity to consider the absence and presence of early childhood education and care discourses in the election platforms, and the consequences this has for the advancement of the workforce. The findings indicate that the early childhood education and care workforce remained largely invisible in the 2018 childcare platforms. When present, educators were often constructed as components of the early childhood education and care system’s stability. In addition, a discourse of ‘maternal care burden’ emerged in some platforms, which initially suggested progressive recognition of the gendered reality of care and care work for women in Ontario. However, the critical discourse analysis illuminates that the maternal-care-burden discourse, while suggesting that mothers are freed to enter the paid workforce, actually reinforces notions of care as women’s work. As well, this discourse further marginalizes the early childhood education and care workforce by downloading one group’s caring responsibilities to a new group of invisible carers – early childhood educators. In light of these findings, the need to disrupt discourses that continue to devalue the early childhood education and care workforce is considered as researchers and advocates seek to assert care labour as an essential public responsibility and a critical concern in political dialogue.

scholarly journals A Matter Of Choice: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of ECEC Policy In Canada'S 2006 Federal Election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Political Speeches

This paper used a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the representation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the 2006 federal election in Canada. Using Fairclough’s approach to CDA, the study analyzed written documents including newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the policy platforms of the Liberal and Conservative parties, and political speeches from party leaders. The “choice” discourse was found to be dominant in the majority of texts examined. A dominant discourse is one that is created and sustained by those with power thus contributing to hegemony in society. Three textual and discourse processes were found to legitimize the “choice” discourse and contribute to its dominance: rationalization, nominalization and conversationalization. It is suggested that the language used in public documents throughout this election and the subsequent dominance of the “choice” discourse may have had a significant impact on citizens’ understanding and appreciation of the complexities of the ECEC issue.

scholarly journals A Matter Of Choice: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of ECEC Policy In Canada'S 2006 Federal Election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Political Speeches

This paper used a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the representation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the 2006 federal election in Canada. Using Fairclough’s approach to CDA, the study analyzed written documents including newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the policy platforms of the Liberal and Conservative parties, and political speeches from party leaders. The “choice” discourse was found to be dominant in the majority of texts examined. A dominant discourse is one that is created and sustained by those with power thus contributing to hegemony in society. Three textual and discourse processes were found to legitimize the “choice” discourse and contribute to its dominance: rationalization, nominalization and conversationalization. It is suggested that the language used in public documents throughout this election and the subsequent dominance of the “choice” discourse may have had a significant impact on citizens’ understanding and appreciation of the complexities of the ECEC issue.

scholarly journals A matter of choice : a critical discourse analysis of ECEC policy in Canada's 2006 federal election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Political Speeches

This paper used a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the representation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the 2006 federal election in Canada. Using Fairclough's approach to CDA, the study analyzed written documents including newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the policy platforms of the Liberal and conservative parties, and political speeches from party leaders. The "choice" discourse was found to be dominant in the majority of texts examined. A dominant discourse is one that is created and sustained by those with power thus contributing to hegemony in society. Three textual and discourse processes were found to legitimize the "choice" discourse and contribute to its dominance: rationalization, nominalization and conversationalization. It is suggested that the language used in public documents throughout this election and the subsequent dominance of the "choice" discourse may have had a significant impact on citizens' understanding and appreciation of the complexities of the ECEC issue.

scholarly journals A matter of choice : a critical discourse analysis of ECEC policy in Canada's 2006 federal election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Political Speeches

This paper used a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the representation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the 2006 federal election in Canada. Using Fairclough's approach to CDA, the study analyzed written documents including newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the policy platforms of the Liberal and conservative parties, and political speeches from party leaders. The "choice" discourse was found to be dominant in the majority of texts examined. A dominant discourse is one that is created and sustained by those with power thus contributing to hegemony in society. Three textual and discourse processes were found to legitimize the "choice" discourse and contribute to its dominance: rationalization, nominalization and conversationalization. It is suggested that the language used in public documents throughout this election and the subsequent dominance of the "choice" discourse may have had a significant impact on citizens' understanding and appreciation of the complexities of the ECEC issue.

scholarly journals A Matter of Choice : a Critical Discourse Analysis of ECEC Policy in Canada's 2006 Federal Election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Discourse Processes ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Political Speeches

This paper used a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze the representation of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the 2006 federal election in Canada. Using Fairclough's approach to CDA, the study analyzed written documents including newspaper articles from The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the policy platforms of the Liberal and conservative parties, and political speeches from party leaders. The "choice" discourse was found to be dominant in the majority of texts examined. A dominant discourse is one that is created and sustained by those with power thus contributing to hegemony in society. Three textual and discourse processes were found to legitimize the "choice" discourse and contribute to its dominance: rationalization, nominalization and conversationalization. It is suggested that the language used in public documents throughout this election and the subsequent dominance of the "choice" discourse may have had a significant impact on citizens' understanding and appreciation of the complexities of the ECEC issue.

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