The Postmodern Curriculum: Making Space for Historically and Politically Situated Understandings

Authors

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western UniversityFollow
Alan Pence, University of Victoria

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Journal

Australian Journal of Early Childhood

Abstract

By engaging poststructural, postmodern and indigenous lenses, this article explores challenges associated with recently developed 'postmodern' early childhood education curricula. The authors propose that curricula should not be seen as neutral, but rather as historically and politically situated documents that require dynamic and critical engagements from educators. We situate our analysis within Canada.