Early Childhood Education: From Maternal Care to Social Compassion

Taggart, Geoff

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18925-9_11

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“…This is because it seeks to alleviate vulnerability, not just suffering, and because 'compassion science' [22] shows that it is a skill that can be developed and applied in different contexts. In having both a political and psychological dimension, compassion also encompasses images of the child as both agentic and emotionally immature, as a holder of rights as well as the recipient of care [21,23] 2019.…”

Section: Introduction: Love In Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolutionary Love: Early Childhood Education as Counter-Culture

Taggart

2022

Sustainability

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This paper places the pedagogies of love and care which typify the early years of practice in the context of evolution, arguing that, during an optimum window of development, young children are predisposed physiologically to benefit from the attention of multiple alloparents. This anthropological model of community stands in stark contrast to the individualistic and privatised notion of love in neoliberal cultures, indicating reasons why practitioners may be ambivalent about it. Moreover, it is argued that, whilst the notion of care is easily commoditised, the deeper concept of love, contextualised within wisdom and faith paths, is resistant to the money culture. In looking beyond neoliberalism at counter-cultural alternatives, alloparenting traditions suggest a way in which ECEC settings can establish themselves as models of social sustainability rooted in ‘philia’ and mutuality.

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Section: Introduction: Love In Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%