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SUMMARY:Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: Generative Entanglement
 s - Professor Jayne Osgood\, Middlesex University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I draw upon my forthcoming book: _Feminis
 ts Researching Gendered Childhoods: generative entanglements_ (Osgood & Ro
 binson\, 2019) to chart the evolving nature of feminist theory and researc
 h methods in childhood studies and the generative potential this holds for
  researchers\, academics and educators to push ideas and practices. In the
  wake of the ‘new materialist turn’ in feminist research\, and the soc
 ial sciences more generally\, I seek to address two pressing questions: wh
 at is especially new about feminist new materialism\, and what is especial
 ly feminist about feminist new materialism. These questions are generative
 \, troubling\, unsettling and insisted upon an adventure in re-turning and
  reconfiguring ideas and practices about gender and childhood.  I discuss 
 the processes involved in the creation of book and how this involved the g
 eneration of artwork\, poetry\, photographs as a means to grapple with how
  gender\, childhood\, family\, curriculum and policy might be researched\,
  differently. The book captures a lively\, collaborative\, intergeneration
 al\, feminist experiment that sought to make space for fresh conceptualisa
 tions of gender in childhood as lived in the post-Anthropocene.\n\n*Dr Jay
 ne Osgood* is Professor of Education (Early Years & Gender) based at the C
 entre for Education Research & Scholarship\, Middlesex University. Her pre
 sent methodologies and research practices are framed by feminist new mater
 ialism. Through her work she seeks to maintain a concern with issues of so
 cial justice and to critically engage with early childhood policy\, curric
 ular frameworks and pedagogical approaches. Through her work she seeks to 
 extend understandings of the workforce\, families\, ‘the child’ and 
 ‘childhood’ in early years contexts. She has published extensively wit
 hin the postmodernist paradigm including _Special Issues of the journal Co
 ntemporary Issues in Early Childhood_ (2006\, 2016 and 2017) and _Narrativ
 es from the Nursery: negotiating professional identities in Early Childhoo
 d_ (Routledge\, 2012) and currently _Feminist Thought in Childhood Researc
 h_ (Bloomsbury Series). She is a member of several editorial boards includ
 ing _Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood\, British Education Research J
 ournal_\, and is Co-Editor of _Gender & Education Journal_ and Co-Editor o
 f _Reconceptualising Education Research Methodology_. 
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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