C & S SIG SEMINAR ‘DIFFICULT DIALOGUES’ How do you challenge the Fences of colonialism in your early childhood setting?(Free, online, Monday 22nd May 2023, UK Time 12-1pm)
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…
C & S SIG SEMINAR Trans Necropolitics and the Need for More-Than-(Post)Human Approaches (Free, on Campus (BARN1), Thursday 4th May 2023, UK Time 2-4pm)
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…
C & S SIG SEMINAR ‘DIFFICULT DIALOGUES’ SANDRA LYNDON & DEBRA LAXTON: How does a co-produced mindfulness approach support young children to develop self-regulation skills? (Free, online, Monday 17th April 2023, UK Time 12-1pm)
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…
C&S SEMINAR_ ECOPEDAGOGIES. SMARANDA-SABINA MOLDOVAN, CRISTINA DAJU, BOGDAN MATEI: ONLINE/OFFLINE SPACE (FREE, ONLINE, MONDAY 3 APRIL 2023, UK TIME 12-1PM)
C&S SEMINAR_ ECOPEDAGOGIES. SMARANDA-SABINA MOLDOVAN, CRISTINA DAJU, BOGDAN MATEI: ONLINE/OFFLINE SPACE (FREE, ONLINE, MONDAY 3 APRIL 2023, UK TIME 12-1PM) ZOOM LINK: https://mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94828448603?pwd=QXBJeWx5NnhtYkFVQkMvejYreitFZz09 Meeting ID: 948 2844 8603 Passcode: 137509 Abstract: Technology was intended to bring us together and human interactions with machines in AI are simmering up. This research on online/offline space aims to…
Struggle, resilience and making change: An in-depth analysis of the experiences of two UK nursery school head teachers from minoritized communities. Little or no dialogue takes place when we consider social justice-oriented leadership progression (Johnson and Campbell-Stephens, 2012) and while studying the discrepancies of why educators from minoritized communities face far more barriers to leadership…
Imagining Environmental Futures: Ecopedagogy of Treescapes (free, online, Monday 6th March, 12-1pm UK Time)
Abstract:Our woods, forests and trees belong to our children. However, the current long-term harming of our Treescapes is leading to loss of animal and plant life and lower environmental quality. Young people in the UK will be deeply affected by this, and they will be tasked with fixing these problems. And yet their voices are…
Difficult dialogues to critical multilogues: Posthuman encounters in bicultural teaching and learning in an early childhood setting in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Free, online, Monday 20th Feb 2023, 12:00-13:00 UK Time
Alison Warren – Bio Alison Warren is an early childhood teacher educator with Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand. Her doctoral thesis used concepts from Deleuze and Guattari to investigate how emotions and ways of becoming are shaped in early childhood teaching. Her present research interests are in engaging with posthumanist theories in relation…
C&S SIGN Seminar Series: Child/hood/s of the Anthropocene
Federico Farini: The environment: resource, context or both? Mari Ystanes Fjeldstad: Missing stickers and bouncing bows: Material agency in music education (online, free, Monday 6th Feb 2023,London, UK) Federico Farini: The environment: resource, context or both? Since 2012, the term enabling environment has been one of four themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).…
‘That’s enough!’ (But it wasn’t): The generative possibilities of attuning to what else a tantrum can do (12:00-12:45pm, London time, Monday 23 January 2023, free online)
Abstract Often used in the plural, tantrum denotes an uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration, typically in a young child. In this paper we attempt to enact a feminist project of reclamation and reconfiguration of ‘the toddler tantrum’. Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions, this paper investigates the complex yet generative possibilities inherent within…
C&S SIG Childhood/s of the Anthropocene Seminar
In this paper we explore what decentring the child in posthumanism does to our research practices, to our conceptualisations of and relationalities to the child. Crucially, we explore the imperative for other ways to encounter the child – that pursue a decolonising and de/recentralising agenda. We pursue tentacular lines of enquiry through a series of…
C&S SIGN: Childhood/s of the Anthropocene: Introductory Seminar
You are invited to join this seminar which will launch the Childhood & Society Seminar series 2022-2023. The C&SSIGN promotes debate on practices and theories shaping education, welfare and lives-lived by children in contemporary societies, it covers a broad spectrum of topics, including: In 2022-2023 the series will address Childhood/s of the Anthropocene, with a specific concern to…
Treescapes Voices of the Future Seminar with Dr. Jayne Osgood, Thursday 13th October 2022, 12:00pm-1:00pm
In this seimar we explore what decentring the child in posthumanism does to our research practices, to our conceptualisations of and relationalities to the child. Crucially, we explore the imperative for other ways to encounter the child – that pursue a decolonising and de/recentralising agenda. We pursue tentacular lines of enquiry through a series of…
Research-Creation as Methodology in the arts, humanities & social sciences A Seminar with Dr Sarah E. Truman Thursday 29th September, 2pm-4pm, Hendon Campus, C133 Originally coined in Canada, the concept research-creation has been mobilized as a term that acknowledges research projects at the intersection of arts practices, theory, and research. In this seminar, Sarah discusses…
The role of trust in positioning Children with Migrant Backgrounds: Primary Teachers’ Narratives (12-12:45 London, Time, Monday 25th April 2022, free, online)
Based on qualitative interviews with primary school teachers in Greater London, this presentation explores teachers’ narratives to uncover how children with migrant backgrounds (CMB) are positioned in the contexts of their learning experience. In particular, the article utilises the analytical category of trust to argue that the position of CMB in teachers’ narratives is related…
Developing Children’s Agency within a Children’s Rights Education Framework: Ten Propositions (12-12:45pm, London Time,Monday 28 March 2022, free, online)
This paper considers children’s agency within the framework of children’s rights education (CRE). It starts by considering the ways in which agency is conceptualised within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the implications for education. Then the paper outlines ten propositions that offer teachers a variety of tools for thinking…
The Special Role of the Baby Room Leader in Early Years Settings, (12-12:45pm, London Time, Monday 14 March 2022, free, online)
There is a growing body of literature on leadership across the early years sector. However, early years leadership research so far has tended to focus on the role of the setting manager, or in some cases, the role of room leaders in preschool rooms (for 3-to-5 year old children). There is a notable gap in…
Childhood and Society Seminar: Critical thinking and judgement, combining Hannah Arendt and Danilo Dolci’s approaches to Character Education in a project developed for a primary school in Turin (Italy) 12-(12:45pm, London Time, Monday 28th Feb, free, online)
Abstract: The seminar reflects on quality education for the promotion of active and responsible citizenship in primary school, focusing on the meaning and sense of two central skills that education for sustainable development promotes in children: the ability to think and judge critically. These skills will be discussed in the context of a proposed methodological…
Childhood and Soceity Seminar: Arboreal Methodologies: the promise of getting lost (with feminist new materialism and Indigenous ontologies) for social studies with Professor Jayne Osgood & Suzanne Axelsson (12-12.45pm London, Time, Mon 14th Feb 2022, free, online)
Abstract: This paper materialises ‘arboreal methodologies’ as a way to push childhood studies in other directions. The problematic divide between theory and practice in early childhood education has long been recognised (Lenz Taguchi, 2010), it is our intention to pursue ways to ‘go beyond’ this divide by enacting feminist new materialist praxis to actively engage…
SERA Early Years Network Event: Symposium – ‘Pedagogy and Play’
Invited Keynote by Professor Jayne Osgood: Play Matters: exploring worldly connections in early childhood In early childhood play has long been understood as a human endeavour; and materiality is, at best, viewed as a means to facilitate play and learning. Feminist new materialist approaches though invite a different engagement with matter, one that contemplates how play…
Childhood and Society seminar: From Active to Activist Parenting: Educational Activism and the Injuries of Institutionalised Misrecognition, with Dr Nathan Fretwell and Dr John Barker (12-12.45pm London Time, Monday 22 Nov, 2021, free, online)
Abstract: This paper centres on the experiences of parents fighting for educational justice. It concerns parents who respond to the uncertainty provoked by policy developments adversely affecting their families and communities by reinventing themselves as educational activists, and it is about the resistance they encountered in struggling to defend their interests. Since the 1980s, education…
Childhood and Society Seminar: Beyond male recruitment: decolonising gender diversification efforts in the early years by attending to pastpresent material-discursive-affective entanglements with Sid Mohandas (12-12.45pm London Time, Mon 8th Nov 2021, free, online)
Abstract In the past few decades important work has been undertaken to unsettle essentialist conceptualisations of gender/sex in the early years workforce (Xu et al. 2020). Through an auto/ethnographic diffractive engagement that thinks with feminist ‘new’ materialist and postcolonial scholarships, this paper uncovers the need to move beyond an exclusive focus on diversifying the workforce…
Childhood and Society Seminar: Cold War Literature for Children with Professor Victoria de Rijke (12pm London Time, 11th Oct 2021, free, online)
Abstract: This visual presentation will explore the tensions inherent in producing literature about war for children. It will trace a line of ‘expressive suppression’ from the radical, avant-garde picturebooks of the Cold War period to a later postwar ‘hypomnesia’. I will argue that C21st backward-looking representations of the Cold Warreflect changing political dimensions and ideologies…
Childhood and Society Seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood: Portal-time and wander lines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research? (12pm London Time, 20th Sep, free, online)
This paper emerged from the forces of a global pandemic that has invited us to wrestle with what ‘virusing-with’, as an everyday, bodily and affective practice, makes possible in educational research. We feel the Coronavirus perform its agency in ways that are imperceptible but palpably sensed – in our everyday lives as early childhood scholars,…
Seminar: Challenging Negative Perceptions around the ‘African Child’, 12-12.45pm Monday 12th July 2021 (free, online)
Evelyn Corrado, Roehampton University & Leena Robertson Contemporary childhood studies have portrayed the ‘African child’ as one who is vulnerable and disadvantaged. The developing world construct is a ‘western’ preconceived label, which shapes a universal deprived position for Africans. Nonetheless, this dichotomy is not representative of most African childhoods, which are comfortable and remain unveiled.…
Seminar: Hybrid-Transitions as a Space for Children’s Agency. A Case-Study from a Pre-kindergarten in Boston. 12-12.45pm Monday 28th June 2021 (free, online)
Angela Scollan, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood, Middlesex University This contribution presents an innovative concept, hybrid-transitions, as a theoretical tool to explore transitions between the digital and non-digital worlds as spaces at the intersection of young children’s agency and the limitations imposed by their position in society. Following a discussion of the idea that the passage…
Video: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr (recorded seminar from Monday 17th May 2021)
Unfortunately, our recording began a few minutes into the presentation. The first slides provide an overview of the talk and explain that this is a joint research project between Dr Mona Sakr and June O’Sullivan MBE, CEO of London Early Years Foundation. Why do we need more social leaders in early childhood education? How can…
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? (Childhood and Society Seminar, 12-12.45pm Monday 14th June 2021, free, online)
In this paper we work with Ursula Le Guin’s (1986) Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction to offer a reconfiguration of ‘the book’ in early childhood contexts. By attending to the relational agencies that are generated from messy entanglements of reader-book-child-chair-cat-lice-mites…we are compelled to feel our way round to arrive at other ideas about what books…
Dr Abele Longo to present on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics at the University of Turin
Dr Abele Longo has been invited by Professor Emanuela Guarcello, course leader of “Istituzioni e storia della pedagogia contemporanea” at the University of Turin, to deliver a seminar on 19 May on Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics and its application in the Mirto Education Centre. This follows on from Abele’s popular seminar (as part of the…
Seminar: Social Leadership in Early Childhood Education – An introduction with Dr Mona Sakr, 12-12.45pm London Time, Monday 17th May (free, online)
Why do we need more social leaders in early childhood education? How can we work towards social justice through early childhood education? How do leaders in early childhood education embed a social purpose and social pedagogy? Social leaders approach early childhood education (ECE) as an opportunity to contribute to social justice. They blend the skills…
Figuring gender in early childhood with animal figurines – pursuing tentacular stories about global childhoods in the Anthropocene. 12-12.45pm, Monday 19th April 2021 (free, online)
This paper considers the potential that a feminist new materialist theoretical framework makes to undertaking research into global childhoods as they materialise through everyday encounters with learning materials in a nursery classroom in London, UK. We trouble prevailing philosophies, pedagogies and worldviews that both frame practice and circulate within the nursery classroom. We then go…
Video online: Shaping curricula through pedagogical innovation: Facilitation of young children’s narratives in the classroom – a free online Childhood & Society seminar, Monday 22nd March 2021
This presentation discusses data produced through the video-observation of workshops in two Primary Schools in London. The workshops were part of an action-research project for a doctoral research and took place in one Year 3 class and one Reception class in each school. The action-research implemented children’s collection and production of photographs related to their…
Video: ‘Worlding’ in Early Childhood Research: An interactive, introductory workshop with Professor Jayne Osgood
We hosted this event 5-6pm GMT, Mon 8th March 2021 (free, online) 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? ‘Worlding’ is a fundamental practice in posthumanist…
Seminar Video: Children as Architects of their own Education – An insight into Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics
We hosted this event 12-12.45pm GMT Monday 8th March 2021 (free, online). The talk examines the application of Danilo Dolci’s Ecological Maieutics in Children’s Education, focusing on Dolci’s practice between 1975 – the year when his Mirto Experimental Educational Centre opened, and 1997. Notwithstanding all the administrative and financial problems it faced, the Mirto Centre,…
Thinking with Freire to develop transformational children’s rights education – video online
Advocates of Children’s Rights Education (CRE) often describe their work as transformational and frequently cite Paulo Freire to argue their case, but they do not always espouse the kind of radical pedagogic practices promoted by Freire. This creates a mismatch between the revolutionary rhetoric of CRE and the rather timid practices that are often promoted.…
Video: From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood?
Professor Jayne Osgood This event was hosted 12-12.45pm on Monday 22nd Feb. It was a free online event. This paper pursues storytelling in the Anthropocene as a method of earthly survival and multispecies flourishing from capitalist ruins. Storytelling emerged from (an accidental method of) walking-with during a global pandemic; the figure of the modern-day flâneuse…
Event: Thinking with Freire to develop transformational children’s rights education, 12-12.45pm Monday 8th Feb 2021, via Zoom
Advocates of Children’s Rights Education (CRE) often describe their work as transformational and frequently cite Paulo Freire to argue their case, but they do not always espouse the kind of radical pedagogic practices promoted by Freire. This creates a mismatch between the revolutionary rhetoric of CRE and the rather timid practices that are often promoted.…
Event: Pheminar Seminar – Enacting an Affirmative Ethics in the Neoliberal University through Peer Reviews, with Katie Strom & Tammy Mills
In this phEminar, we introduce an intervention into practice that explores the refusal of the belittlement and rejection culture of academia, focusing on scholarly publishing, and specifically on peer review. As a production of a creative project that the two of us worked on together, we created an affirmative peer-reviewing practices workshop that presented an…
Early Years: Finding Our Voice – – transcript, briefing & video of the event
The Leadership in Early Years Education RIG held an online symposium on Tuesday 19th January 2021. We were fortunate to welcome a fantastic trio of speakers to the event, bringing local, national and international perspectives to the issue of making the early years sector better heard in society and policy. Our speakers were: Aaron Bradbury…
Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World – transcript, briefing & videos of the event
The relaunched Leadership in Early Years Education RIG held an online symposium on Tuesday 10th November 2020. We were fortunate to welcome a fantastic trio of speakers to the event, bringing local, national and international perspectives to the problem of how we move forward as a sector in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Our speakers…
‘Avant-Garde Art & Children’s Picture Books’ – a webinar with Victoria de Rijke
Victoria de Rijke led a webinar on the 9th Nov 2020 , organised by a PhD Candidate she mentors at São Paulo State University and the São Paulo Research Foundation. A very heterogeneous group of 70 people from UG and PG students in English to professors researching picturebooks and children’s literature in general from Brazil, China,…
Event: Early Childhood Voices Conference (online), 16th – 20th November 2020
Professor Jayne Osgood is giving a keynote speech at the ECV conference hosted by Charles Stuart University in Australia. The Early Childhood Voices Conference (ECV2020) is a multidisciplinary international conference providing a platform to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners that supports social justice during early childhood or…
Exploring Childhoods – The Couch Conversations (with Professor Jayne Osgood)
‘Childhood isn’t a hothouse to be fenced in and closed off and climate controlled. It’s a wide open, sun drenched, wind-swept field of endless possibilities, experiences and discoveries’ L.R. Knost Produced by Semann & Slattery and David Gilkes Education Consultants, this series of webinars was designed to bring the world’s leading thinkers on early childhood…
Event: How diffraction works and why posthumanism matters, online workshop, 2nd Nov 7-8pm GMT
Register for the event here. • Kieran Sheehan: Vice-Principal, Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) • Prof Jayne Osgood, Prof Jessica Ringrose, and Prof EJ Renold: Founders of PhEmaterialism, an international working group which shares a commitment to putting posthuman theories to work with the aim of addressing urgent issues of injustice • Annouchka…
Event: Gender Matters in the Classroom – Free Middlesex University Webinar, 25th Nov 2020
On Wednesday 25th November, Middlesex University a free webinar focused on what can practically be done to address gender stereotyping in the classroom. About this Event Gender stereotyping in the classroom limits expectations and confidence amongst children, and reinforces unhelpful ideas about what women and men can do in adult life. This webinar, co-hosted by…
Event: Early Years Leadership in a Post-Covid World, 10th Nov 2020
Early Years Leadership for a Post-Covid WorldAn Online Symposium4.30-6pm (GMT), 10th November 2020 What kind of early years leadership do we need over the next few years?What are the challenges we face and how can we overcome them?How important is the early years sector and early years leadership in post-Covid social recovery? As we move…
Guest Lecture: Alternative Understandings About How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room. Presented by Dr Jayne Osgood.
Jayne Osgood delivered this presentation as part of her speaking tour in Australia and New Zealand in the early part of 2020. This lecture was delivered at the Graduate School of Education in the University of Melbourne. In this lecture, Dr Jayne Osgood attempts a reconfiguration of ‘diversity’ in early childhood contexts by turning attention to everyday…
Guest Lecture: Jayne Osgood on Researching Gendered Childhoods in the Anthropocene: a PhEMaterialist Experiment
Professor Jayne Osgood delivered a lecture to members of the School of Health Sciences Te Kura Matai Haoura in the University of Canterbury. The presentation was part of Osgood’s speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand in the early part of 2020. Her presentation charted the evolving nature of feminist research in childhood studies.
Event: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak Eco-poetic Entanglements: A New Materialist and Post-qualitative Approach to Poetry Written by Children
Children’s literature written by child authors, or another children’s literature, is attracting a growing scholarly interest as a form of young people’s participation in culture and as an expression of their perspectives on their own childhoods and general social and political phenomena in which they participate. Drawing on new materialist, relational and post-qualitative approaches, including…
Event: Pink Towering Practices in the Montessori Classroom: how gender is produced through human-material-semiotic encounters
Date: Monday 4th November 2019 Time: 15.30-17.00, Rm C113 Abstract: This paper attempts to open out investigations in early childhood by working beyond anthropocentric accounts of gender. Drawing upon feminist new materialist philosophies we ask whether it might be possible to reach understandings about gender that recognise it as produced through everyday processes and material-affective…
Event: ‘Stretchy time’ versus ‘screen time’: Reframing digital play in relation to possibility thinking – a C & S seminar with Dr Mona Sakr
DATE & TIME: 7th May, 12.30-13.30 LOCATION: Committee Room 2, Town Hall, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, NW4 4BT Mona Sakr (Middlesex University) Previous research suggests that children’s possibility thinking (‘what if’ thinking) is best supported by practitioners practising ‘stretchy time’ (Cremin et al., 2006; Craft et al., 2015). Popular views however repeatedly focus on the need…
Event: Early childhood educators’ well-being: From invisibility to a logic of ‘and’ – a C & S seminar with Tamara Cumming
DATE & TIME: 22nd May, 12.30-1.30 LOCATION: Committee Room 2, Town Hall, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, NW4 4BT Dr Tamara Cumming (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Discourses of well-being abound in early childhood education policy documents and practice guidelines across many national contexts. However, there is a discursive silence regarding the well-being of educators. At the same…
Sensing, thinking and doing a diffractive pedagogy in Early Childhood Teacher Education (ECTE) – A C & S seminar with Anna Moxnes and Teresa Aslanian
& Making cuts: the joys of representation DATE & TIME: 4th April, 12.30-14.00 LOCATION: C113, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, NW4 4BT Session materials: PowerPoint: Thinking, sensing and doing reflectionPowerPoint: Making cuts Teresa K. Aslanian (The University of South-Eastern Norway) Making cuts: the joys of representation This paper considers representation in the context of the ECEC classroom…
Event: Children and animals: painful becomings and unruly rhizomes – a C & S seminar with Riikka Hohti
DATE & TIME: 28th February, 12.30-13.30 LOCATION: C205, College Building, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, NW4 4BT Riikka Hohti (Helsinki University/MMU) Mapping multispecies co-existence requires entering the unsecure terrains of more-than-human epistemologies. It includes troubling the persistent anthropocentric ways of perceiving other than human beings and focusing on multispecies becomings. In this presentation I explore human-animal encounters…
Event: The Posthuman Child Manifesto – a workshop with Professor Karin Murris
DATE & TIME: Tues 4th December, 16.00 – 19.00 LOCATION: Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT To book to attend this event please see the Eventbrite page Karin Murris is Full Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy at the School of Education at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Grounded in philosophy as an academic discipline,…
Event: “Trying to keep up”: Female student carers: Intersections of identity, space, time and rhythm – a C & S seminar with Dr John Barker
DATE & TIME: 6th December, 15.30-17.00 LOCATION: C207, College Building, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, NW4 4BT John Barker (Middlesex University) Care and Caring are burgeoning areas of academic thought, in education, human geography and other subject areas and disciplines. Drawing upon in-depth interviews (carried out by colleagues) with women in HE who are in education with…
Event: Excavating Naming Practices in Language Research Methodologies: the case of Romani languages in Europe – a C & S seminar with Dr Leena Robertson
DATE & TIME: 7th November, 12.30-1.30 LOCATION: FG17, Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT Leena Helavaara Robertson (Middlesex University) This presentation draws on an European Union (EU) funded research study (more details can be found here https://research.ncl.ac.uk/romtels/) in which the Roma research participants identified their language as ‘our gypsy language’. The process of finding names for…
Event: Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods – Generative Entanglements
Professor Jayne Osgood DATE & TIME: Weds 24th October, 16.30 – 18.00 LOCATION: Faculty of Education, Cambridge University – Donald McIntyre Building, Room GS1 In this presentation I draw upon my forthcoming book: Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: generative entanglements (Osgood & Robinson, 2019) to chart the evolving nature of feminist theory and research methods in…
Workshop: Apps for Children: Facilitating creativity, literacy and problem-solving
Date & time: Saturday 16th June 2018, 10am-1pm Location: Building 9, BG01/BG02, Middlesex University, London A half-day workshop for early childhood practitioners in order to develop awareness and critical evaluation of the apps available for children aged 0-8 years in three different areas: Creativity and art-makingLiteracy and storytellingProblem-solving and possibility thinking Practitioners will be invited…
Event: Scribble: early childhood art, or ‘the becoming that breaks out of time’ – a C & S seminar with Dr Victoria de Rijke
Date & time: 6th June 2018, 1-2pm Location: C107, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: Children’s scribble is often under-valued and thrown away as junk. It is a ubiquitous part of young children’s mark making, and from a developmental perspective is invariably labelled early, random, unintentional, at best experimental mark-making, indicative of a child’s movement…
Event: Matter-realising Pedagogical/ Methodological Interferences into terror and violence (PhEMaterialism 2018)
Date: 7th & 8th June 2018 Location: Day 1, Institute of Education; Day 2, Middlesex University PhEmaterialism (Feminist Posthuman and New Materialisms in Education) is a working group that brings together a globally dispersed assemblage of students, researchers, teachers, artists experimenting with how posthuman and new materialism can reassemble educational research. [[[Book for Day 1]]]…
Event: Natural Interfaces in Children’s Everyday Experiences: Alexa in Free-Flow Play – a C & S seminar with Dr Mona Sakr)
Date & time: 9th May 2018, 1-2pm Location: C106, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: The paper will examine how the natural interface The Echo, inhabited by the personality of Alexa, contributes to the free-flow play experiences of a three and seven year old in their home. The paper is based on an understanding of play as a sociocultural…
Event: We don’t leave our emotions at the nursery door’- The Essence of Emotional Labour in Early Years Professional Practice – a C & S seminar with Lynette Morris)
Date & time: 23rd May 2018, 1-2pm Location: C107, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: Highly romanticised images of childhood produce notions of ‘ideal’ children serenely cared for as they laugh and play all day. However, these conceptualisations do not accurately reflect the multiple realities of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and the complexity…
Governing through Trust: community-based link workers and parental engagement in education – a C & S seminar with Dr Nathan Fretwell
Date & time: 21st February 2018, 1-2pm Location: C107, College Building, Middlesex University, London Key words: parental engagement, governmentality, trust, link workers, family policy Educational (under)achievement amongst white British working-class pupils has been a key concern for policy makers in recent years, and has become commonplace in public debates around education in the mass media (House…
Event: Queering understandings of how matter comes to matter in the baby room – a C & S seminar with Professor Jayne Osgood)
Date & time: 7th March 2018, 1-2pm Location: C106, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: In this paper, I focus on material-discursive-semiotic entanglements and how that enables a reconfiguration of what we understand diversity to be in early childhood contexts. I will work with data that draws into sharp focus noodles, spit, sound, movement, and…
Event: Perspectives in Photography: Comparing approaches to analysing photos – a C & S seminar with Dr John Barker
Date & time: 7th February 2018, 1-2pm Location: C107, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: The explosion of ‘visual methods’ such as photography, combined with more traditional observational approaches, have cemented visual senses as accepted and mainstream forms of data collection in early years, care and educational contexts. In this paper, I discuss a number…
Event: Emotional Journeys: Navigating emotional content within complex life histories and its impact on the research process – a C & S seminar with Nicky Spawls
Date & time: 24th January 2018, 1-2pm Location: W159, Williams Building Middlesex University, London Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore issues regarding the role of emotion in the research process. Ryan (2008) suggests that emotions may be a topic within research but may also impact upon the research process. Listening to the…
Event: What’s wrong with character education? – a C & S seminar with Dr Lee Jerome
Date & time: 10th January 2018, 1-2pm Location: c107, College Building, Middlesex University, London Abstract: In this paper I argue that the recent policy focus on character education is problematic in part because it resonates so strongly with educational discourses which focus excessively on the individual child (their potential, attainment and deficits) and pay too…
Conference: Gender and Education Association, 2017
Date & time: 21-23 June, 2017 Location: Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT The conference website is now live – with full details including the call for abstracts and registration information.
Event: Affected and Embodied Early Years Educators in the Baby Room – a C & S seminar with Meryl Williams and Deb Albon
Date & time: Wednesday 29th March, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – College Building, Room C122 Seminar 10: Professional Identities of Early Years Workers Meryl Williams, University of Sussex – Behind the Nursery Door: Emotional Labour in the Babyroom I am the deputy manager of a private day nursery in southern England. In this ethnographic study…
Event: Screening of: ‘Estevão – a sensory ethnomusicology of learning’
Date & time: Wednesday 5th april, 12 – 2pm Location: Middlesex University – Vine building, Room V102 Film by Robbie Campbell, with Q&A session chaired by Dr Fabia Franco (Psychology, School of Science and Technology) Robbie Campbell is a 3rd year PhD Ethnomusicology Scholar at SOAS, University of London. He will be presenting an immersive…
Event: Experimental research methods in early childhood – a C & S seminar with Kerry Moakes and Jayne Osgood
Date & time: Tuesday 18th April, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – College Building, Room C126 Seminar 11: Experimental research methods in early childhood 2-Curious: Jarring a Two Year Old (Kerry Moakes, Manchester Metropolitan University) This paper will illustrate the potential of an experimental approach to continuous professional development (CPD) focussing on the entangled intra-relations that…
Event: Children & the Media – a C & S seminar with Dr Jacqueline Harding
Date & time: Wednesday 22nd February, 2 – 3.30pm Location: Middlesex University – College Building, Room C101 Seminar 8: Children & the Media Dr Jacqueline Harding (Middlesex University) – Children’s TV & Schematic Attraction This small‐scale case study research investigates two TV shows: Teletubbies and Paw Patrol, questioning how widely embedded schematic signals might be…
Event: Childhood in the (Post-)Anthropocene – a C & S seminar with David Blundell and Jayne Osgood
Date & time: 29th November, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – College Building, CG09 Seminar 3: Childhood in the (Post-)Anthropocene David Blundell (London Metropolitan University) Children and childhood in the Anthropocene: taking ‘a wider look around’. Prof Jayne Osgood (Middlesex University) Re-configuring early childhood education as worldly-entanglement “Justice, which entails acknowledgment, recognition, and loving attention, is…
Event: Digital Childhoods – a C & S seminar with Dr Mona Sakr and Dr Lorraine Kaye
Date & time: 10th january, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – Williams Building, W153 Is Digital Squiggle Different: Participation frameworks and affect flows in collaborative drawing on paper vs. the iPad Dr Mona Sakr (Middlesex University) In Squiggle, a game popularised by the psychotherapist D. W. Winnicott, one person begins a drawing with an abstract squiggle…
Event: Nomadic Subjects: Children on the Move – a C & S seminar with Dr Leena Robertson and Dr Zinnia Mevawalla
Date & time: 24th January, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – Town Hall, Committee Room 2 Seminar 6: Nomadic Subjects: Children on the Move Dr Leena Robertson (Middlesex University) Roma Children on the Move and in School This presentation provides a brief snapshot of an Erasmus+ funded project ROM-tels that arises from two long-standing, global and…
Event: Power and Politics in Childhood – a C & S seminar with Dr Nathan Fretwell and Dr Nick Mead
Date & time: Wednesday 15th February, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – College Building, Room C126 Seminar 4: Power and Politics in Childhood Dr Nathan Fretwell, Middlesex University – Anarchist Education and the Paradox of Pedagogical Authority Education has a special importance for anarchists. It is linked, on one hand, to the possibility of social transformation;…
Gender and Education – a C & S seminar with Dr John Barker & Clare O’Donoghue
Date & time: 15th November, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – Town Hall, Committee Room 3 “Who cares?” Care, gender and secondary schools: The interesting example of the ‘sin-bin’… Dr John Barker (Middlesex University) A breadth of education and other social science literature explores gendered professional identities, practices and spaces across a range of UK educational…
Event: The Prevent Agenda in Schools: Moving beyond surveillance to education – a C & S Seminar with Dr Lee Jerome and Dr Alex Elwick
Date & time: 18th October, 12-1.30pm Location: Middlesex University – Town Hall, Committee Room 2 The Prevent Agenda in Schools: Moving beyond surveillance to education Dr Lee Jerome & Dr Alex Elwick (Middlesex University) In this paper we will share some of the findings from an evaluation we have recently conducted in secondary schools where…
Education businesses and the business of education: the pearsonification of teaching and learning – a research seminar with Stephen J. Ball
DATE & TIME: 1st june, 2016, 1.00pm-3.00PM LOCATION: Room C110, College Building, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Education businesses and the business of education: the pearsonification of teaching and learning. A research seminar with Stephen J. Ball Edu-businesses are getting more and more involved in educational delivery – running schools – and education policy. They are part of a shift in…
Forum: Considering the future – Early years qualifications and training
Date & time: 3rd June 2016, 10.00am-3.30pm Location: C219 Boardroom, College Building, Middlesex University London Early years qualifications and training research seminar: Considering the future A one-day forum on early years qualifications and training. A keynote will be given by Emeritus Professor Peter Moss, from UCL Institute of Education, who will discuss: “What do we want for our…