This is a vital contribution to reconceptualizations of gender in early childhood education and research. The book brings forward much-needed possibilities for more-than-human feminist orientations to enact anti-colonial and justice-oriented approaches. Importantly the book also brings embodied and affective attunements to the everyday places and spaces of early childhood education as sites for enacting transformative gendered and more-than-gendered relations. * Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor, OISE, University of Toronto. Canada * Rooted in original, empirical research, Mohandas traces the gendered legacies that shape early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the UK and disrupts the prevailing discourses in male recruitment drives that position men as bringing recuperative qualities to the sector. Drawing on a more-than-human framework to investigate the materialisation of a gendered workforce in Montessori classrooms, this text offers generative, compelling insights and a novel and hopeful contribution to the field. It is a deeply thought-provoking book. * Nathan Archer, Associate Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK * Thinking with post-humanist and post-structuralist perspectives, this meticulously researched book provokes readers to re-engage with our understanding of gender in EC education. Inviting re-consideration of relationships and reflection on our interconnectedness in unexpected ways, the author pinpoints opportunities for the Montessori community to re-imagine gender and its gendered workforce. * Barbara Isaacs, Montessori Europe *
