“…This research contributes to the scholarship about the wages and working conditions of ECEs and the stress that they experience, highlighting the importance of having paid planning time. It also contributes to reconceptualist literature that examines early childhood education and the role of the educator from poststructural and feminist perspectives (Bloch, Swadener & Cannella, 2018;Cannella, 1997Cannella, , 2018Dahlberg, Moss & Pence, 2006;Langford, 2007Langford, , 2010Langford, Richardson, Albanese, Bezanson, Prentice & White, 2017;MacNaughton, 2003MacNaughton, , 2005Moss, 2006Moss, , 2010Moss, , 2019Osgood, 2006;Pacini-Ketchabaw, Nxumalo, Kocher, Elliot & Sanchez, 2015).…”