Diverse cultural and gendered identities: Working with children and families in early childhood services

7 Apr 2025

How can early childhood settings support children and families with a range of diverse cultural and gendered identities?

Associate Professor Sonja Arndt and Professor Kylie Smith of the University of Melbourne have been exploring this through research and practice for many years. In this webinar, they highlight the why, what and how: why this work is important, what it means for teachers, educators, and kaiako, and potential implementations in practice.

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Presenters

Associate Professor Sonja Arndt

Dr Sonja Arndt is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, where her teaching, research and scholarship explores feminist poststructuralist philosophies of subject formation, Otherness, both human and more-than-human Otherness, within the realm of early childhood education and particularly in the often-neglected area of teachers’ cultural/racial Otherness. Sonja publishes widely and actively collaborates with national and international networks.

Professor Kylie Smith

Dr Kylie Smith is a Professor of Early Childhood Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on childhood studies and issues of equity and social justice. Kylie draws on participatory research methods to support children to engage with research, policy and educational curriculum and pedagogy.