Children and Materialities

The Force of the More-than-human in Children’s Classroom Lives

Casey Y. Myers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

245 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-8167-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Casey Y. Myers an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Kent State University, Ohio, where she teaches courses focusing on the integration of social studies and expressive arts, the relational elements of teacher practice, theories of child/hoods and the role of the humanities in early years classrooms. She also serves as the Coordinator of Studio and Research Arts for the Child Development Center, an early years laboratory school on the Kent campus. Her research interests revolve around the everyday materialities of young children’s school lives and the complexities of inquiring into and representing those relations. She was the inaugural recipient of the Jeanette Rhedding-Jones outstanding dissertation award from the International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education organization in 2015. She currently lives in Northeastern Ohio with her husband, son, and various animal companions.

Introduction.- Prologue: Contradictions.- The Kindergarten Book.- Contributors.- Assembling.- Entering.- 5 Cartographies.- Afterword.- Afterword: Potentialities.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
Zusatzinfo	80 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 245 p. 100 illus., 80 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
Schlagworte	children and animals in early years classrooms • children and media in early years classrooms • listening methodologies with young children • new materialisms in early childhood • new materialist approaches to classroom research • new materialist perspectives on quality • new materialist perspectives on self-regulation • posthuman classroom research with young children • post-qualitative research with young children
ISBN-10	981-13-8167-4 / 9811381674
ISBN-13	978-981-13-8167-6 / 9789811381676
Zustand	Neuware