Unsettling the Trump Baby: Learning from values and pedagogy in the early childhood nursery

The 2018 anti-Trump protest in London is dominated by an effigy, the form of a balloon, that morphs President Donald Trump and childhood. Whilst this can be interpreted as humorous act to ridicule Trump, critical reading scene through postmodern lens suggests image appropriation manipulation masquerading baby becomes ‘vagabond’ who denied citizenship; she focus for negativity fears, symbolising values hate intolerance. Baby vexing way it obscures knowledge agentic competent child known within nursery. protesters exercise power they mock humiliate on social media. Such actions legitimatise hostile acts against children prompt questions about interdependency between adults both construction realisation children’s citizenship. This paper considers range positions could adopt order co-construct with respect their status citizens. In way, nurseries become forums where citizenship defended nurtured.