"Do I have to wear mud pants?": Mud pants as material agent in Finnish preschool.
Mud pants have protected Finnish preschool children from dirt and water for many years. However, children do not like to wear them and educators in preschools feel that mud pants cause hard work. This contradiction made us wonder with mud pants. Drawing on relational–material approaches, we understa...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 675 - 688 |
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