Re-imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce: Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives

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Dr Sid Mohandas

Re-imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce

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Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives

Dr Sid Mohandas

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Bloomsbury Academic
02 April 2026

Educational strategies & policy; Pre-school & kindergarten

Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research

This book draws on feminist and more-than-human approaches to re-imagine gender in the early childhood workforce.

Debates, policies and practices around gender in the early childhood workforce have predominantly focused on the under-representation of men and the recuperative outcomes promised through the inclusion of men. Mohandas’ research is, however, concerned with the ways a gendered workforce can be re-imagined when the boundaries of research are stretched beyond mere human inclusion and attention is paid to ordinary objects and unassuming relations that constitute everyday life in the nursery. Through an attunement to the atmospheric, a gendered workforce is re-conceptualised as gendered forces that work across bodies (human and nonhuman), spaces, places and temporalities. Through vignettes from the nursery, Mohandas makes visible how each encounter is composed of gendered and more-than-gendered (i.e. racialised, classed and casted) forces, relations, stories and worlds. By employing feminist theorisations that foreground materiality, affect, discourse, place and temporalities, the book offers new ways to deepen conversations and practices around gender in the early childhood workforce.

By: Dr Sid Mohandas
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350534582
ISBN 10: 1350534587
Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 02 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Editor’s Preface Introduction 1. Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce 2. Troubling Gender in the Research Process 3. Theorizing Montessorian and More-than-human research practice 4. Feminist New Materialism and Re-storying a Hot Mug of Tea 5. The Camera in Early Childhood Settings 6. Gender, Race and Snot in Montessori Education 7. Feminist Relational Onto-epistemology in Gendered Workforces ECEC Conclusion References Index

Sid Mohandas is Guest Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK and University of Cardiff, UK.

Reviews for Re-imagining Gender in the Early Childhood Workforce: Feminist and More-than-human Perspectives

This is a vital contribution to reconceptualizations of gender in early childhood education and research. The book brings forward much-needed possibilities for more-than-human feminist orientations to enact anti-colonial and justice-oriented approaches. Importantly the book also brings embodied and affective attunements to the everyday places and spaces of early childhood education as sites for enacting transformative gendered and more-than-gendered relations. * Dr. Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor, OISE, University of Toronto. Canada * Rooted in original, empirical research, Mohandas traces the gendered legacies that shape early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the UK and disrupts the prevailing discourses in male recruitment drives that position men as bringing recuperative qualities to the sector. Drawing on a more-than-human framework to investigate the materialisation of a gendered workforce in Montessori classrooms, this text offers generative, compelling insights and a novel and hopeful contribution to the field. It is a deeply thought-provoking book. * Nathan Archer, Associate Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK *