Publications

Langford, R. & Richardson, B. (2020). Ethics of care in practice: An observational study of interactions and power relations between children and educators in urban Ontario early childhood Settings. Journal of Childhood Studies, 45(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019398

Bezanson, K., Langford, R. & Banks, M. (2019) No more baby steps: Political insights from the 2018 election for moving childcare policy forward in Ontario. eceLINK, Fall 2019, 9-17. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/aeceo/pages/2532/attachments/original/1571861527/Nomoreebabysteps.pdf?1571861527


Langford, R. (ed.) (2019) Theorizing feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice: Possibilities and dangers. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theorizing-feminist-ethics-of-care-in-early-childhood-practice-9781350067486/

Langford, R., Bezanson, K. & Powell, A. (2019). Imagining a caring early childhood education and care system in Canada: A thought experiment.  International Journal of Care and Caring. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ijcc/pre-prints/content-ijccd1900068

Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada

By Rachel Langford, Patricia Albanese, Kate Bezanson, Susan Prentice, Brooke Richardson & Jacqueline White

Langford, R., Albanese, P., Bezanson, K., Prentice, S., Richardson, B. & White, J. (2017) Caring about care: Reasserting care as integral to early childhood education and care practice, politics and policies in Canada, Global Studies of Childhood 7(4), pp 311 – 322

Insights from Feminist Ethics of Care as a Contemporary Critical Theory for Contesting Binaries and Imagining Possibilities

Alana Powell, Rachel Langford & Melinda Bruce 

Presentation at the Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood Online Symposium | June 4, 2020

Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized ECEs in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election 

Alana Powell, Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice, Kate Bezanson  

Powell, A., Langford, R., Albanese, P., Prentice, S. & Bezanson. K. (2020). Who cares for carers? How discursive constructions of care work marginalized early childhood educators in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 21(2), 153-164. DOI: 10.1177/1463949120928433

Langford, R. (2020) Navigating reconceptualist and feminist ethics of care literature to find a conceptual space for rethinking children’s need in early childhood education. Journal of Childhood Studies, 45 (4).  https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs00019308