Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies: Research After the Child

by Claudia Diaz-Diaz, Paulina Semenec

Overview

This book features interviews with 19 scholars who do research with children in a variety of contexts. It examines how these key scholars address research 'after the child’ by exploring the opportunities and challenges of drawing on posthumanist and materialist methodologies that unsettle humanist research practices.

The book reflects on how posthumanist and materialist approaches have informed research in relation to de-centering the child, re-thinking methodological concepts of voice, agency, data, analysis and representation. It also explores what the future of research after the child might entail and offers suggestions to new and emerging scholars involved in research with children.

Reviewing how posthumanist and materialist approaches have informed authors’ thinking about children, research and knowledge production, the book will appeal to graduate students and emerging scholars in the field of childhood studies who wish to experiment with posthumanistmethodologies and materialist approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811527074
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	03/14/2020
Series:	Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claudia Diaz-Diaz is a Ph.D. in Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Claudia received her Hons. BA in Psychology from the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (2001) and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from UBC (2013). Her research interests include neoliberal approaches to educational policy, social pedagogies, childhood studies, and critical place methodologies. She has worked as an educational consultant and manager of poverty-reduction programmes in Chile. She is currently a UBC Public Scholar and a Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. She received the Janusz Korczak Scholarship for her work on children’s rights and the Margaret and Peter Lukasevich Memorial Prize in Early Childhood Education. Claudia is currently a sessional instructor in the Teacher Education Program at UBC.

Paulina Semenec is a Doctoral Candidate in Educational Studies at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation explores the affective and spatial dimensions of social and emotional learning practices in primary school settings. She is interested in post-qualitative and visual research methodologies, as well as critical childhood studies. She has worked as a sessional instructor in the Teacher Education Program at UBC since 2017. She was a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholarship (2016), and the Faculty of Education Endowed Award (2018). She currently works at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, where she is engaged in research on teaching and learning initiatives at The University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Part 1 From the individual to the collective.- Interview with Sonja Arndt.- Interview with Mindy Blaise & Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw.- Interview with Bronwyn Davies.- Interview with Hillevi Lenz Taguchi.- Interview with Jayne Osgood.- Interview with Margaret Somerville.- Part 2 Recreating and Tracing Childhoods.- Interview with Sylvia Kind.- Interview with Karin Murris.- Interview with Casey Y. Myers.- Interview with Pauliina Rautio.- Interview with Christopher Schulte.- Interview with Marek Tesar.- Part 3 Situating Children's Lives.- Interview with Iris Duhn.- Interview with Riika Hohti.- Interview with Peter Kraftl.- Interview with Karen Malone.- Interview with Fikile Nxumalo.- Interview with Affrica Taylor.- Afterword.