Home in Early Childhood Care and Education

Andrew Gibbons is Professor in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Sonya Gaches is Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood Education at the University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand. Sonja Arndt is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Mara Sapon-Shevin is Professor of Inclusive Education at Syracuse University, USA.Colette Murray is Lecturer at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. Mathias Urban is Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. Marek Tesar is Professor of Childhood Studies and Early Childhood Education, as well as Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

• Welcome to Home: An Introduction.- The Deconstruction of the Language of Home.- Whose Home? Problematizing the Nature of “Homelike” in Early Childhood Education.- Home or Homelessness: A Diffractive Re-articulation of Teacher Otherness.- Criminalization of the Right to Home for Palestinian Children.- Home Is There: Borderlands, Belonging, and the Stories We Tell.- Theorizing Architectures of Home.- The Things of Home: Histories, People, Stories, Belonging.- Heart(h)less: Negative Visibility and Positive Invisibility: An Irish Travellers’ Tale.- Vagabonds Efficaces—Effectively Changing the World from a Non-space.- Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education and Home with Love.