Centre for Education Research and Scholarship
Abstract: This presentation offers further insights into Osgood’s work with Arboreal methodologies in childhood studies. She contests that arboreal methodologies invite immersive, affective bodily engagements with natureculture that are opportunities to experience the world differently and so take the non-innocence of nature more seriously. This is especially pressing for childhoods of the Anthropocene, the current…
In this seminar the idea of the land of ‘a’ school as research site as neutral is troubled. Karen Barad (2017) refers to Trinity, in New Mexico, in the USA, the testing site of the first atomic bomb as “wounded ground.” I propose the research site of the school where I was a teacher for…
Abstract: What’s Theatre Got To Do With It? Performance, Everyday Life and Futures This paper was given at the final conference of the Future laboratories for professional and personal development – FUTURES (2020-2023) project. This is a European project which emphasizes the importance of high-quality adaptation skills as the means to support individuals in acquiring and…
Abstract: What’s Theatre Got To Do With It? Performance, Everyday Life and Futures This paper was given at the final conference of the Future laboratories for professional and personal development – FUTURES (2020-2023) project. This is a European project which emphasizes the importance of high-quality adaptation skills as the means to support individuals in acquiring and…
Abstract This paper offers a Playful Archive which t(h)reads a path through research undertaken in childhood studies over the past decade that insist uncertainty, speculation, and curiosity displace conventions that rest upon a search for knowability, linearity and solutions. The intention is for this Playful Archive to weave the promise of post-foundational inquiry through a…
Abstract: this presentation will consider difficult dialogues that may happen with your students or young children through either provocations or natural, historic and authentic experiences. The examples reflect an International dialogue of difficulty, that draw on colonialism from the past, and aggression that is now happening currently in the Ukraine. It focuses on how as a…
Abstract: The seminar offers insights into the “C-AIRɛ” International Research Project, which, led by the University of Turin in partnership with Middlesex University and the West University of Timişoara, has conceived an innovative training practice targeted at primary school children and realized through aesthetic experiences conducted with AI generated visual arts. The massive diffusion of…
Dr And Pasley University of Auckland/University of Oulu Posthuman approaches to research seek to undo the sins of modern/colonial humanism: positivism, dualism, individualism, anthropocentrism, transcendentalism, temporal linearity, and the subsequent hierarchies that emerge from this order of things (Quijano, 2000; Jackson, 2016). However, critiques from Indigenous scholars (e.g., Todd, 2016; Hokowhitu, 2020) suggest that Western academia’s…
Abstract: This presentation will report on a small scale action research project with four maintained nursery schools about how a co-produced mindfulness approach can support young children to develop self regulation skills. Research suggests that mindfulness is an effective strategy for adults, but little research has been conducted on its impact for young children. Evidence…