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Theorising posthuman childhood studies / Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, Sonja Arndt.

Malone, Karen, author.; Tesar, Marek, author.; Arndt, Sonja, author.
2020
HQ767.9 .M35 2020
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Title
Theorising posthuman childhood studies / Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, Sonja Arndt.
Author
Malone, Karen, author.
ISBN
9789811581755 (electronic book)
9811581754 (electronic book)
9811581746
9789811581748
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2020]
Language
English
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HQ767.9 .M35 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.23
Summary
This book is a genealogical foregrounding and performance of conceptions of children and their childhoods over time. We acknowledge that children's lives are embedded in worlds both inside and outside of structured schooling or institutional settings, and that this relationality informs how we think about what it means to be a child living and experiencing childhood. The book maps the field by taking up a cross-disciplinary, genealogical niche to offer both an introduction to theoretical underpinnings of emerging theories and concepts, and to provide hands-on examples of how they might play out. This book positions children and their everyday lived childhoods in the Anthropocene and focuses on the interface of children's being in the everyday spaces and places of contemporary communities and societies. In particular this book examines how the shift towards posthuman and new materialist perspectives continues to challenge dominant developmental, social constructivist and structuralist theoretical approaches in diverse ways, to help us to understand contemporary constructions of childhoods. It recognises that while such dominant approaches have long been shown to limit the complexity of what it means to be a child living in the contemporary world, the traditions of many Eurocentric theories have not addressed the diversity of children's lives in the majority of countries or in the Global South. "This is an incredibly well-written, thoughtful, scholarly and timely book. The first few chapters offer a genealogy of 'how we got to posthuman theorizing in childhood studies', with the latter offering more empirically-informed accounts of what those studies could and should look like with a very welcome series of nuanced and important reflections on methods, ethics and, as the authors put it, 'performing' posthuman childhood studies. The book also offers an important analysis of how an attention to the posthuman could be entangled with critical questions of social difference." - Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham, UK.
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Tesar, Marek, author.
Arndt, Sonja, author.
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Intro
Posthuman Childhood Studies: An Introduction
Aims and Intentions
Book Overview
Contents
1 History and Philosophy of Children and Childhoods
Children and Childhoods
The Evil, Rational and Free Child
Philosophy of Childhoods
Histories of Childhood Education
Classical and Early Modern Philosophies of Childhoods
Dewey and Childhood
Analytic Philosophy of Education, Radical Tradition and Childhoods
Postmodernism and Poststructuralism in Philosophy of Childhood
Philosophy of Childhood in Action
Biopolitics and the Governing of Childhoods

Toy Story 3: Childhood and Imagination
Towards the Posthuman Child
References
2 Reconfiguring Childhoods and Theories
Child as not Fully Human
Child Bodies Under Scientific Scrutiny
Children as Social Beings
Limiting Views of Childhoods
Disrupting the Dominant Framework with the New Sociology of Childhoods
Postdevelopmental Challenges of Childhoods
Postdevelopmental Theories as a Plurality of Childhoods
Viewing Children and Childhoods Differently
Children as Ontologically Complete
Social Constructivist Theories of Childhoods

Challenging Ideas on Structures and Agency
Reconfiguring Childhood Studies
References
3 Cartographies of Materialism: Thinking with Child(hood) Theories
Interrogating Child as a Construct
Child as a Vibrant Becoming
Child as a Hybrid Assemblage
Child as a Body
Child as Other and More-Than-Human Subject
Multiplicities of Child-Constructs
References
4 Rethinking Childhoods and Agency
Agency in Contemporary Times
Socio-cultural Agency
Unequal Childhoods/Unequal Agency
Complicating Agency Through a Posthuman Lens
Rethinking Agency
Thing-Power Agency

Back to Clementine
"Deep History" and Shared Agency
Freedom and Shared Agency
Political Agency
Concluding Comments
References
5 Posthuman Pedagogies in Childhoodnature
Time and Temporalities of Childhood(s)nature
Childhoodnature Disconnect
Posthuman Pedagogies
Sensorial as Pedagogy
Encounters as Pedagogy
Relations as Pedagogy
Response-Ability
Learning with Childhoodnatures
Concluding Comments
References
6 Entangling Childhoods, Materials, Curriculum and Objects
Introduction
Why Curriculum?
Understanding Te Whāriki's Posthuman Potential

Contextualising Te Whāriki's Influence
A Posthuman Childhood Studies Lens
Posthuman Curriculum
Child ↔ Materialities ↔ Curriculum
Rethinking Curricular Relationalities
Case Study #1: Children's Entanglement with Materials
Case Study #2: Children's Entanglement with Objects
Concluding Entanglements
References
7 Children's Worlding of/in Learning Environments
Introduction
Learning Environments as Precarious
Learning Assemblages: Meaning, Power and Circumstances
Questioning Linear Expectations
Hierarchical Power
Picture Books and Learning Environments

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