Course Description
Applies post-structural theory to topics in early childhood and elementary education. Theories to be covered include various versions of French post-structuralism (Foucault, de Certeau, Bourdieu, Althusser, and Deleuze), performance theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory.
Athena Title
Post Struct Thry Early Ch EDEL
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDEL 8260E, EDEC 8260E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to articulate the differences and similarities between structuralist and post-structuralist theories.
- Students will be able to describe several key post-structural theories and analyze how researchers in the field of Early Childhood and Elementary Education have drawn on these theories.
- Students will be able to apply these theories to their own research topics.
Topical Outline
- a. Structuralism: Freudian, Marxist, anthropological, and linguistic versions
- b. Ideology (Althusser)
- c. Cultural capital (Bourdieu)
- d. Discourse and Power (Foucault)
- e. Resistance and the Practice of Everyday Life (de Certeau)
- f. The Carnivalesque (Bakhtin)
- g. The Post-Modern Condition (Jamison)
- h. Queer and Performance theories (Butler)
- i. Lines of flight (Deleuze and Guattari)
- j. Post-colonialism (Bhabha and Spivak)
