Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood Research Observation

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.>

About the author

Jayne Osgood is Professor of Education at Middlesex University, UK and Visiting Professor at Oslo Met University, Norway.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jayne Osgood (Editor), Mona Sakr (Editor)
• Authors: Jayne Osgood
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.05.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education
• EAN: 9781350369771
• ISBN: 978-1-350-36977-1
• Pages: 184
• Dimensions (packing): 15.4 x 23.2 x 1.2 cm
• Series: Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood
• Subjects: Posthumanism, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Early childhood care and education, Feminist New Materialism, Social Semiotics, postdevelopmental theory, childhood observation