Asserting nationhood in early childhood education

This chapter discusses how nationhood is asserted in early childhood education institutions in its different forms and seeks to answer the following questions: How are children being socialized into a national identity and culture? How, when, and in what ways do children draw on the ‘us’ and ‘them’ divisions? How do children replicate nationhood and how do they interpret, participate in, resist, contest and produce their own versions of nationhood in ordinary practices of everyday life? How does nationhood operate in the routine activities of early childhood education in stable democracies?