Learning with Damaged Colonial Places: Posthumanist Pedagogies from a Joburg Preschool

1 Children's pedagogies: Fool's gold and the rush for readiness. The arts in early learning. Artists working with children.- 2 Running a preschool instead of a shop: The economics of early childhood provision in South Africa. Stories about a Johannesburg not-for-profit preschool.- 3 Teaching is research is learning: Legacies of Reggio Emilia and Philosophy with Children. Enquiry based learning, atelieristas and documentations. A/r/tography. Making photos, creating video, re-working data/creata.- 4 Naming and nont-naming: Thresholds of literacy. Opening the doors of literacy. Teaching as welcoming.- 5 Taking fantasy out of the corner: Sensory worlds and the imagination. The importance of nonsense.- 6 Park-ing: Public spaces renegotiated. Toxic landscapes and influx control.- 7 Possibilities of becoming public. Empyting the prison of childhood.