My research interests span a range of cultural and philosophical perspectives. My current research is concerned with the marginalisation of immigrant early childhood teachers in Aotearoa and in their early childhood settings. It engages with the contemporary philosophical discourse on the notion of the foreigner and foreignness, as well as the policy and political milieu of early childhood education, and draws on critical multicultural, feminist, cultural geographies. It is underpinned and motivated by Julia Kristeva’s philosophical interrogation of the foreigner, and of ways of living with and being other ”˜without ostracism and without leveling’. My research aims to provoke critical pedagogies based on sensitive, ethical orientations towards the other, and towards responsible encounters with, across and because of differences
