Children and Materialities
The Force of the More-than-human in Children’s Classroom Lives
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Beschreibung
This book makes the case for young children as both keenly materially aware of and highly dependent on sets of interrelated material-discursive circumstances. It argues that long-term engagement with children around the topic of meaning-matter relations upends many taken-for-granted notions of consumption, self-regulation, knowledge production, and what constitutes quality of life within a school setting.
The book provides complex accounts of agency on multiple scales - the capability of children to shape and share research, the force of objects, stuff, and things to impact the "social" workings of a classroom, and the impact of nonhuman animals on the trajectory of the ways in which children relate to each other.
This work makes a significant contribution to both theoretical conceptions and practical enactments of childhoods, productively addressing the many contradictions inherent in a posthuman and participatory approach to researching with young children. It also offers insights into how the everyday materialities of children’s classrooms (and their complex representations) are capable of disrupting the common-sense order of things.
Provides everyday, highly readable and engaging examples of complex theory applied to a familiar and relatable setting
Contains chapters that are co-constructed between a researcher and young children
Explains the ways in which popular theoretical framings emerge within an educational context
Provides engaging examples that apply complex theory to a familiar and relatable setting Explains the ways in which popular theoretical framings emerge within an educational context Advances the perspectives of young children through research on everyday classroom life
Autor*in
Casey Y. Myers
Themen in »Children and Materialities«
new materialisms in early childhood post-qualitative research with young children new materialist approaches to classroom research posthuman classroom research with young children listening methodologies with young children children and animals in early years classrooms children and media in early years classrooms new materialist perspectives on self-regulation new materialist perspectives on quality