Children and Materialities

Provides everyday, highly readable and engaging examples of complex theory applied to a familiar and relatable setting
Contains chapters that are co-constructed between a researcher and young children
Explains the ways in which popular theoretical framings emerge within an educational context

Provides engaging examples that apply complex theory to a familiar and relatable setting Explains the ways in which popular theoretical framings emerge within an educational context Advances the perspectives of young children through research on everyday classroom life

Autorentext
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.

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