Diversity in unity: developing an anti-racist framework within Froebelian pedagogy

Tembo, S ORCID: 0000-0001-8821-5476 and Bateson, S (2025) 'Diversity in unity: developing an anti-racist framework within Froebelian pedagogy.' In: Bamsey, V, McNair, L.J and Campbell, N, eds. Anti-racism in early childhood education: theory and practice. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9781350441040

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Abstract

The chapter details the authors' experiences of creating a framework to challenge racial inequalities in young children's play drawing on Jones and Okun’s (2001) decolonial framework. Across four sections, it examines practitioners' challenges in acknowledging their own racial identity, explores current anti-racism policies, analyses the potential of Froebelian pedagogies to address colonialism and proto-racialisation in children's play, and provides an overview of the authors' ethnography-by-proxy research.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
UN SDGs:	Goal 4: Quality Education
Keywords:	race, anti-racism, early childhood, play, Froebel, colonialism, affect
Divisions:	School of Education
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Date Deposited:	06 Oct 2025 14:20
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2025 14:20
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17330

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