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This book is a collection of feminist childhood studies stories from field research with educators, young children, and/or early childhood student-educators that explores the challenges, tensions, and possibilities of common worlds research methods for the 21st century. Grounded in a common worlding orientation, the contributing authors grapple with complex methodological understandings within postqualitative practices within settler colonial states: Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Unites States. Each chapter presents a method the authors have put to work in their efforts to unsettle the interpretative power of Euro-Western developmental knowledges and anthropocentric frameworks to reimagine research amid the colonialist, social, and environmental challenges we face today. The research(ing) stories act as provocations for generating innovative, relational, and emergent methods to attend to the complexity of 21st-century childhoods. Just as developmental and sociological perspectives gave birth to new forms of inquiry within childhood studies in 19th-century industrialization and 20th-century urban change respectively, the 21st-century requires novel questions, practices, and methodologies to enhance the childhood studies lexicon. In the field ofchildhood studies, where settler colonial and neoliberal logics have so much clout, suchstrategies are crucial. is an important and relevant read for anyone working and researching with children.>
List of contents
Introduction: Common Worlding Research,
B. Denise HodginsPart I: Relations with Materials1. Claying: Attending to Earth's Caring Relations,
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Kelly Boucher2. Fabricating: Fabric Fluidities and Studio Encounters,
Sylvia Kind and Adrienne Argent3. Sticking: Children and the Lively Matter of Sticks,
Tonya Rooney4. Literacying: Literacy Desiring in Writers' Studio,
Candace R. Kuby5. Intergenerationaling: Children, Elders, and Materials Making Waves,
Rachel Heydon and Elisabeth Davies6. Muscling: Doing Physiologies with Pedagogies in Education Research,
Nicole LandPart II: Relations with Other Species7. Crowing: Coevolving Relationships,
Kathleen Kummen8. Shimmering: Animating Multispecies Relations with Wurundjeri Country,
Mindy Blaise and Catherine Hamm9. Tracking: Cultivating the "Arts of Awareness" in Early Childhood,
Narda Nelson10. Rabbiting: Troubling the Legacies of Invasion,
Affrica TaylorPart III: Relations with Place11. Gathering: An a/r/tographic Practice,
Vanessa Clark12. Mashing: A Practice that Makes Vision Felt,
Nikki Rotas13. Playing: Inefficiently Mapping Human and Inhuman Play in Urban Commonplaces,
Linda M. Knight14. GoProing: Becoming Participant-Researcher, Susannah Clement
15. Presencing: Decolonial Attunements to Children's Place Relations,
Fikile NxumaloPart IV: Relations with Retheorizings16. Caring: Method as Affect, Obligation, and Action,
B. Denise Hodgins17. Learningliving: Aesthetics of Meaning Making,
Randa Khattar and Karyn Callaghan18. Colaboring: Within Collaboration's Degenerative Processes,
Cristina D. Vintimilla and Iris Berger19. Childing: A Different Sense of Time,
Karin Murris and Cara BorcherdsIndex
About the author
B. Denise Hodgins is Co-Director of the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network in British Columbia, Canada, a founding member of the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory, and a member of the Common Worlds Research Collective. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada.
