Childhood art in community education: postdevelopmental learning through feminist leadership, diversity and pedagogic invention

Community education describes learning outside the formal spaces of school and before school settings such as kindergarten and long day care. Community education is not a recent development; however, a growing curiosity about what, how and where children learn recognizes that meaningful experiences take place in sites where children are treated differently, where children have greater agencies and where children are not managed within the same logics and systems that govern formal education. The three forces feminist leadership, diversity and pedagogic invention spotlight how childhood art in community education is postdevelopmental pedagogy and learning in action. I use particular incidences of my experiences of working as an artist/community educator/early childhood education scholar in the UK and Australia to formulate accounts of childhood art in community education. The incidences suggest how the learning philosophies informing art in community education exemplify postdevelopmental learning and pedagogic invention