Bodies As Sites of Cultural Reflection in Early Childhood Education

Taking the body as a locus for discussion, Rachael S. Burke and Judith Duncan argue not only that implicit cultural practices shape most of the interactions taking place in early childhood curricula and pedagogy but that many of these practices often go unnoticed or unrecognized as being pedagogy. Current scholars, inspired by Foucault, acknowledge that the body is socially and culturally produced and historically situated' it is simultaneously a part of nature and society as well as a representation of the way that nature and society can be conceived.