Abstract
This paper centres on a nursery teacher who finds herself confounded by an aspect of boys' play, particularly their attraction to 'gun play'. However, by engaging with poststructuralist theories the teacher is able to recognise how her inability to deal satisfactorily with the boys and their play can be attributed to her own immersion in two discourses: child centred pedagogy and feminism. The paper charts her efforts at shifting certain mechanistic practices. In this cleared space, she is then able to offer the boys ways of extending their play.
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