Dr YUWEI XU's Outputs (9)

Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts (2023)
Book
Bhana, D., Xu, Y., & Adriany, V. (Eds.). (2023). Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003211600

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam. In this book, the contributors explore how gender, culture, rel... Read More about Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts.

Gender and sexuality in Global South early childhood education (2023)
Book Chapter
Bhana, D., Xu, Y., & Adriany, V. (2023). Gender and sexuality in Global South early childhood education. In D. Bhana, Y. Xu, & V. Adriany (Eds.), Gendered and Sexual Norms in Global South Early Childhood Education: Understanding Normative Discourses in Post-Colonial Contexts. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003211600-1

This chapter situates gender, sexuality, and early childhood education (ECE) within the context of colonial and postcolonial discourses. It sets the scene for the chapters that follow, highlighting the ways in which normative understandings of gender... Read More about Gender and sexuality in Global South early childhood education.

The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Brooks, C., Gao, J., & Kitto, E. (2025). The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 33(2), 655-674. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2023.2267594

This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of develop... Read More about The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education.

Promoting participation of under-represented families in research (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Gao, J., XU, Y., Zhai, J., & Arabaci, R. (2023). Promoting participation of under-represented families in research

(Re)Constructing equality, diversity, and inclusion in Chinese childhoods: Intersectional perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches (2023)
Journal Article
Zhu, Y., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., & Tan, R. (2023). (Re)Constructing equality, diversity, and inclusion in Chinese childhoods: Intersectional perspectives and transdisciplinary approaches. Global Studies of Childhood, 13(2), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231178008

Men in Early Childhood Education (2023)
Book Chapter
Wang, D., Chen, L., & XU, Y. (in press). Men in Early Childhood Education. In The Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Early Childhoods and Childhood Studies. Bloomsbury Publishing

This entry provides a critical overview of men working in early childhood education (ECE). It covers the rationales for men’s participation in ECE, the recruitment and retention of men in the ECE workforce, and men’s subjective working experiences; d... Read More about Men in Early Childhood Education.

Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, T., Xu, Y., Yu, Y., & Liu, Z. (2024). Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(7), 1155-1170. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2179870

This article investigates students’ post-secondary education transition processes in Cameroon through the lens of agency. Situated in a country where the higher education participation rate is fairly low, our article explores how students agentically... Read More about Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon.

When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, C., & Xu, Y. (2023). When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play. Childhood, 30(2), 177–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231151848

This study employs a poststructuralist theoretical framework to explore parents’ attitudes towards children’s right to play in Shanghai, China. It adopted mixed methods of online questionnaires (N = 880) and semi-structured interviews (N = 11). The f... Read More about When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play.

Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China (2023)
Journal Article
Hoskins, K., Thu, T., Xu, Y., Gao, J., & Zhai, J. (2023). Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China. British Educational Research Journal, 49(3), 455-475. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3850

Over the past 2 years, the world has been living through the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. Children have had to adapt to online classrooms and lessons of some sort, and many parents have been forced to work from home while supervising their child'... Read More about Me, my child and Covid-19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China.