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SUMMARY:Putting Feminist New Materialism to work through affective methodo
 logies in early childhood research - Professor Jayne Osgood\, Middlesex Un
 iversity
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In this paper I examine how we might move beyond a preoccupati
 on with critique in educational research. I argue that moving away from cr
 itique opens up possibilities to reconfigure some entrenched ideas about c
 hildhood and early years education. This requires a deep engagement with t
 he ordinary routines and mundane situations that unfold in nursery practic
 e. Attention to shaving foam snowmen\, boggly eyes\, human hair\, mirrored
  walls and too-small furniture provides the means to account for associati
 ons and traceable attachments in which education can be understood as more
  than an exclusively human endeavour. I draw upon a small number of other-
 worldly examples to illustrate the means by which we can\, playfully but s
 eriously\, break free from old orthodoxies and routine habits in early chi
 ldhood. In doing so more generative possibilities are opened up to rethink
  thought about children\, childhood\, research and early years practice. T
 his new materialist approach is informed by feminist scholars including Ja
 ne Bennet\, Karen Barad\, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti and it calls fo
 r the world\, and our human place in that world\, to be considered afresh.
  \n\n*Professor Jayne Osgood* is a Professor of Education (Early Years & G
 ender) based at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship\, Middlese
 x University. Her present methodologies and research practices are framed 
 by feminist new materialism. Through her work she seeks to maintain a conc
 ern with issues of social justice and to critically engage with early chil
 dhood policy\, curricular frameworks and pedagogical approaches. Through h
 er work she seeks to extend understandings of the workforce\, families\, 
 ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’ in early years contexts. She has publi
 shed extensively within the postmodernist paradigm including Special Issue
 s of the journal _Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood_ (2006\, 2016 and
  2017\, forthcoming) and _Narratives from the Nursery: negotiating profess
 ional identities in Early Childhood_ (Routledge\, 2012)\; and currently _F
 eminists Researching Childhood_ (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming) and _Post-devel
 opmental Approaches to Childhood Art_ (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming). She has 
 served on several editorial boards including _Contemporary Issues in Early
  Childhood Journal\, British Education Research Journal_\, and is currentl
 y _Co-Editor of Gender & Education Journal_ and Co-Editor of _Reconceptual
 ising Education Research Methodology_.\n
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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