Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (CGPPMT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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The Kindergarten Book
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Afterword
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children and Materialities
Book Subtitle: The Force of the More-than-human in Children’s Classroom Lives
Authors: Casey Y. Myers
Series Title: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8168-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8167-6Published: 27 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8170-6Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8168-3Published: 17 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-3408
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3416
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 245
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Child and School Psychology, Educational Philosophy, Research Methods in Education