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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. I consider the ways in which discourses\, curriculum frameworks\, inspe
 ction regimes\, research and pedagogical practices and routine happenings 
 are entangled within everyday events in an early childhood centre. I focus
  upon the material-semiotic-discursive and affective entanglements observe
 d during ethnographic research which takes materiality as its starting pla
 ce. Attention to shaving foam snowmen\, boggly eyes\, human hair\, mirrore
 d walls and too-small furniture provides the means to account for associat
 ions and traceable attachments in which education can be understood as mor
 e 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 
 seriously\, break free from old orthodoxies and routine habits in early ch
 ildhood. In doing so more generative possibilities are opened up to rethin
 k thought about children\, childhood\, research and early years practice. 
 This new materialist approach is informed by feminist scholars including J
 ane Bennet\, Karen Barad\, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti and it calls f
 or the world\, and our human place in that world\, to be considered afresh
 . \n\n*Dr Jayne Osgood* is a Professor of Education (Early Years & Gender)
  based at the Centre for Education Research & Scholarship\, Middlesex Univ
 ersity. Her present methodologies and research practices are framed by fem
 inist new materialism. Through her work she seeks to maintain a concern wi
 th issues of social justice and to critically engage with early childhood 
 policy\, curricular frameworks and pedagogical approaches. Through her wor
 k she seeks to extend understandings of the workforce\, families\, ‘the 
 child’ and ‘childhood’ in early years contexts. She has published ex
 tensively within the postmodernist paradigm including Special Issues of th
 e journal _Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood_ (2006\, 2016 and 2017\,
  forthcoming) and _Narratives from the Nursery: negotiating professional i
 dentities in Early Childhood_ (Routledge\, 2012)\; and currently _Feminist
 s Researching Childhood_ (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming) and _Post-developmenta
 l Approaches to Childhood Art_ (Bloomsbury\, forthcoming). She has served 
 on several editorial boards including _Contemporary Issues in Early Childh
 ood Journal\, British Education Research Journal_\, and is currently Co-Ed
 itor of _Gender & Education Journal_ and Co-Editor of _Reconceptualising E
 ducation Research Methodology_. 
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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