In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education.Through adopting a common worlds fram

Affrica Taylor is Associate Professor of Education, University of Canberra, Australia.

Introduction 1. Rousseau's Legacy: Configuring Nature's Child 2. Representing Nature's Child 3. Educating Nature's Child 4. Assembling Common Worlds Childhoods 5. Enacting Common Worlds Childhoods Conclusion: Towards Common Worlds Pedagogies