Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying poststructural ideas
By Glenda Mac Naughton
(Routledge, 041532100X, 22.99, 020 7017 6000)
Reviewed by Denni Morrison, advanced teaching and learning practitioner, Hertford Regional College
By reading this book I've learned a new word - rhyzoanalysis. As someone who has taught research methodology for several years, it is both interesting and worrying to discover new research terminology. Am I the last to know?
Rhyzoanalysis is, according to Glenda Mac Naughton, 'a way to explore the politics of a text in order to create new texts.' She shows how rhyzoanalysis can be used to deconstruct text recorded during child observations and to create new and different ways of understanding what has taken place.
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