Book Reviews: Deconstructing Early Childhood Education: Social Justice and Revolution,Gender in Early Childhood,Theorizing Childhood

Derrida J. (1991) Of grammatology, in Kamuf P. (Ed.) A Derrida reader: Between the blinds. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Lodge D. (1984) Small World. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Davies B. (1989) Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales: Preschool children and gender. Allen & Unwin.

Davies B. (1993) Shards of Glass: Children reading and writing beyond gendered identities. Allen & Unwin.

Dyson A. H. (1997) Writing Superheroes: Contemporary childhood, popular culture, and classroom literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gallas K. (1994) The Languages of Learning: How children talk, write, dance, draw, and sing their understanding of the world. New York: Teachers College Press.

Gallas K. (1998) Sometimes I Can be Anything: Power, gender and identity in a primary classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.

Leavitt R. L. & Power M. B. (1997) Civilizing bodies: Children in day care, in Tobin J. (Ed.) Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Mac Naughton G. (1994) ‘You can be dad’: Gender and power in domestic discourses and fantasy play within early childhood, Journal for Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 1, pp. 93–101.

McLaren P. (1998) Revolutionary pedagogy in post-revolutionary times: Rethinking the political economy of critical education, Educational Theory, 48, pp. 431–462.

Ryan S. K. (1998) Freedom to choose: A poststructural study of child-centered pedagogy in an urban kindergarten classroom. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

Thorne B. (1995) Gender Play: Girls and boys in school. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.