Melanie Kuhn – författare

This book draws on the perspectives of leading German scholars to provide a systematic overview of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Germany, furthering international understanding of the complexities involved in ECEC topics in Germany.

The book provides a unique insight into parts of German ECEC rarely seen outside of the country. Offering in-depth insights into historical developments, theoretical approaches and empirical research, the volume discusses Germany’s long tradition in ECEC against the backdrop of Froebel and other pedagogues and traditions. Chapters consider ECEC in Germany from the perspectives of theory, institutions and professionalization. The book draws on international literature and current debates to highlight the features and peculiarities of ECEC in Germany, contributing to dialogue on research into early childhood education and care.

Providing a much-needed, internationally relevant insight into ECEC in Germany, this text will be essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students involved in the field of early childhood education, international education, educational theory, and those researching educational policy and politics more widely.

This book draws on the perspectives of leading German scholars to provide a systematic overview of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Germany, furthering international understanding of the complexities involved in ECEC topics in Germany.

The book provides a unique insight into parts of German ECEC rarely seen outside of the country. Offering in-depth insights into historical developments, theoretical approaches and empirical research, the volume discusses Germany’s long tradition in ECEC against the backdrop of Froebel and other pedagogues and traditions. Chapters consider ECEC in Germany from the perspectives of theory, institutions and professionalization. The book draws on international literature and current debates to highlight the features and peculiarities of ECEC in Germany, contributing to dialogue on research into early childhood education and care.

Providing a much-needed, internationally relevant insight into ECEC in Germany, this text will be essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students involved in the field of early childhood education, international education, educational theory, and those researching educational policy and politics more widely.

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings. The volume explores the strengths and challenges of theoretical and methodological approaches to intersectionality, addressing its spatial, temporal and comparative dimensions. It, therefore, adopts a critical and process-focused approach while recognising the agency of individuals as subjects of state policies. The contributions critically build the link between intersectionality and other theoretical frameworks and research paradigms, including Marxist social reproduction theory, critical race studies, Bourdieuan analysis of class, critical geography, childhood, queer, migration, and disability studies. The contributions provide insights into the institutional realms of health, education, social services, and care work and examine state practices of racial profiling and policing in distinct welfare states. Overall, the contributions illustrate the strengths of the intersectionality framework in empirical inquiries while providing critical reflections on its limitations. Readers across a diverse array of social science disciplines will find this book valuable.

In dieser ethnographischen Studie wird unter performativitätstheoretischen und neueren praxeologischen Theorieperspektiven pädagogische Professionalität im Kindergarten der Migrationsgesellschaft untersucht. Hierfür wird die (körper-)praktische Hervorbringung des elementarpädagogischen Alltags durch die Professionellen und die Kinder durch Ritualisierungen, die Erzeugung von spezifischen Raum/Zeit-Verhältnissen und den praktischen Gebrauch von Artefakten rekonstruiert. Unter der Frage nach dem Fragilen dieser performativen Hervorbringung und den Herausforderungen, denen die Professionellen unterworfen sind, werden das Differenzdilemma, das Autonomiedilemma und das Paternalismusdilemma mikroanalytisch aufgeschlossen und die praktischen Umgangsmodi der Professionellen mit diesen Dilemmata sinnrekonstruktiv analysiert.

Auch die Erziehungswissenschaft beschäftigt sich anhaltend mit Differenz- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen. Die Einsicht, dass pädagogische Institutionen und Organisationen an der Re-Produktion ungleichheitsrelevanter Differenz und mithin Ungleichheit beteiligt sind, hat empirische Evidenz. Welche Kennzeichen erziehungswissenschaftlicher Perspektiven auf Differenz und Ungleichheit lassen sich spezifizieren? Welche methodologischen Herausforderungen gehen damit einher? Welche empirischen Befunde erbringen aktuelle – vornehmlich qualitative – erziehungswissenschaftliche Differenz- und Ungleichheitsanalysen? Diese Fragen liegen der Konzeption des Bandes zugrunde. Er will einen Beitrag zur Verhältnisbestimmung von Differenz, Ungleichheit und Erziehungswissenschaft leisten.