Researching Child-Dog Relationships and Narratives in the Classroom - Rhythms of Posthuman Childhoods

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and wellbeing by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

List of contents

Introduction
PART I: PRELUDE
Chapter 1 Empathic ethnography: A 'body' of evidence in fieldwork as methodological praxis
PART II: ENSEMBLE
Chapter 2 Ted 'makes it feel like home': Emergent peer-creaturely culture
PART III: RITORNELLO
Chapter 3 The significance of sensory creaturely comfort in child-dog encounters: Touch in the classroom
PART IV: OPUS and FUGUE
Chapter 4 Fascinating rhythms: A soundscape and comic book as rhythmic events and choreographies
PART V: CADENCE and CODA
Chapter 5 Towards a creaturely, loving pedagogy: Ted as 'pedadog'
Ostinato

About the author

Donna Carlyle is Assistant Professor, Post-Doctorate Researcher, and former Specialist Health Visitor and Psychotherapist, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Carlyle, Donna (Northumbria University Carlyle
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032434629
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243462-9
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Explorations in Developmental Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Animal & Comparative Psychology, Psychotherapy, Educational psychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Animal behaviour, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Teaching skills and techniques, Ethics and moral philosophy, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Teaching skills & techniques, Zoology and animal sciences, Primary & middle schools, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Primary and middle schools