'Half of it's Out the Window': Exploring Tensions, Hierarchies and Positionalities Amidst the Changing Knowledge Base of Early Childhood Teacher Education Discourses

Early childhood education is foregrounded in change. In Australia, this has encompassed the introduction, review and updates of national quality curriculum frameworks from 2009, changes to qualification requirements. Within state Victoria, further impacts have occurred due simultaneous introduction a parallel framework. This paper draws on qualitative study examine how diverse teacher discourses available Victorian long day care educators shaped their subject positions, discursive practices reform engagement. Utilising Foucault’s concepts discourse, knowledge power, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis [FDA], findings offer insight into privileged content influence engage changing base field. Recommendations are put forward for consideration better accommodate positionalities occupied by ease enduring hierarchies tensions within early