International Early Childhood Resources from Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA)

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-320
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Research

Adults Researching Pre-Schoolers in More-Than-Human Contexts

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-143
Author(s):  
Fiona Scott ◽  
Jo Bird
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
School Children ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Childhood Play ◽  
The Social ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Researcher Identity

Drawing on their reflective conversations, the authors argue that existing educational research paradigms may be insufficient for understanding how researchers are mutually affecting, and affected by, encounters with both the human and more-than-human, as spoken of in Rautio and Jokinen, whilst engaging in ethnographic research with pre-school children. Through empirically grounded reflections in the social and material spaces of kindergartens and family homes, we aim to reflect and raise critical questions about existing educational research paradigms, focusing on: 1. The intrinsic tensions between child-centered and post-human paradigms. 2. The (in)stability of researcher identity in the Anthropocene. 3. The unique research context(s) of early childhood play. The chapter concludes by proposing for debate several new norms for the kind of ‘identity work' in which researchers grappling with the emergent post-human and Anthropocentric traditions might consider engaging.

Researching With Children of the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Somerville ◽  
Sarah Powell
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Researching With Children

This chapter takes the age of Anthropocene as the time of human entanglement in the fate of the planet, dated by some from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We propose, however, that the full awareness of the consequences of this entanglement will only be felt by children born in the twenty-first century into an entirely different world than the one we know and understand. Interestingly, in the light of this contention, early childhood leads the field of educational research in posthuman scholarship, which we associate with the rise of scholarly work galvanised around the notion of the Anthropocene. These approaches draw variously on Haraway's common worlds, Barad's new materialism, and Deleuze and Guatarri's nomadic philosophies.

International Early Childhood Resources from Educational Research Abstracts (ERA)

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
L. Girolametto ◽  
S. Bonifacio ◽  
C. Visini ◽  
E. Weitzman ◽  
E. Zocconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Educational Research
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