Theoretical Thinking
Decentering the Human
Decentering the Human
Bringing arts-based, playful interventions into the classrooms of four-year-olds, to explore multispecies relationalities caused all manner of trouble.
Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI)
19th February 2025
Decentering the Human
Decentering the Human
"Playful approaches in childhood research can operate as subversive acts of refusal." Professor Jayne Osgood speaking on the sixth seminar series hosted by the Australian Association for Research in Education. September 5, 2024
Child-snail relations
Playing in the Undercommons
Through a series of tentacular provocations this chapter contemplates how gender might be reimagined from child-snail relationalities. Further, it invites attunement to how else gender coalesces through a young child's non-verbal, not-quite-literate, bodily encounters with the everyday.
Playing in the Undercommons
Playing in the Undercommons
Playing in the Undercommons
This chapter proposes that playful approaches in childhood research can operate as subversive acts of refusal. Insights from a current research project are presented within the broader context of contemporary schooling which is shaped by intensified regulation of young child body-minds in the name of developmental progress.
Scrabbling Talk
Playing in the Undercommons
Scrabbling Talk
A video talk: Down the Back of a Chair – What does a method of scrabbling with Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ offer conceptualisations of ‘the child’ in the Anthropocene?
Wordling
Playing in the Undercommons
Scrabbling Talk
A video talk: What does ‘worlding’ mean in the context of early childhood research? How does the practice of ‘worlding’ change the way we understand childhood? How does ‘worlding’ transform how we do research in early childhood education?
Care and Recklessness
Care and Recklessness
Care and Recklessness
An article on how theory informs creative approaches to childhood research.