Antiracist and Decolonial Approaches to Early Years Education : Perspectives from the Nordics

This edited volume locates and interrupts absences concerning the workings of race, whiteness and coloniality in relation to early years education in the Nordics. The contributors provide novel empirical knowledge and contextualized understandings of concepts such as coloniality, race, racism, whiteness, and intersectionality in relation to early years education, in and across the Nordics, including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland and Sápmi. The contributors also contribute to the development of pedagogical theory and practice that can offer alternatives, interruptions, and counterstrategies to the reproduction of racism, coloniality and injustice in and through education.

The book sheds light on the particularities of the Nordics, while also offering contextually relevant examples that can provide teaching and insights of relevance to the broader international context of anti-racist and decolonial education.