Full Description
This book challenges the developmentalist paradigm that dominates research into children and childhood, focusing on observation as a research method. It offers new postdevelopmental ways of conducting childhood observations which are diverse in context and theoretical orientation, and in the process, deconstructs the dominant traditions of childhood research. Written by leading scholars based in Canada, Norway, the UK, and the USA, the chapters consider observation as it is enacted in the home, nursery or classroom. Drawing on a range of theories including feminist new materialism, social semiotics, and posthumanism, the chapters cover a range of topics including reciprocal methods, photography, childhood art, and memoir.
Contents
Introduction, Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University, UK)
1. Unflattering Angles: Cameras, Consent, and (self) Construction in Classroom Research (Casey Y. Myers, Watershed Early Years Partnership)
2. Observing What You Cannot See, Abigail Hackett and Christina MacRae (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
3. Down On The Ground: The Material Memoir of the Posthuman Researcher (Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University)
4. Humming a Tune: Attending to "Earworms" as a More-than Observational Practice in Fieldwork with Children (Paulina Semenec, The University of British Columbia)
5. Telling Story: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction as a Means of Reciprocal 'Researching-with' Children (Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University)
6. Observing Migrant Children: Shifting the Frame from Linguistic Deficit to Display of Agency (Federico Farini, University of Northampton, UK and Angela Scollan, Middlesex University)
7. Being There: A New Materialist Approach to Observing Care in a Toddler Classroom (Teresa Aslanian, University of South-Eastern Norway)
8. "Can I draw in your sketchbook?": Collaborative Observation-making with Children (Hayon Park, Arkansas University and Jeffrey M. Cornwall, The Pennsylvania State University)
9. Toddlers' Tinkering with Toys: Unpacking Complex Action Texts in Doc McStuffins Play (Karen Wohlwend, Yanlin Chen, and Adam Maltese, Indiana University)
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