Children and Materialities The Force of the More-than-human in Children's Classroom Lives /

• Main Author: Myers, Casey Y. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories,
• Subjects: Child development.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Education-Philosophy.; Education-Research.; Early Childhood Education.; Child and School Psychology.; Educational Philosophy.; Research Methods in Education.

This book makes the case for young children as both keenly materially aware of and highly dependent on sets of interrelated material-discursive circumstances. It argues that long-term engagement with children around the topic of meaning-matter relations upends many taken-for-granted notions of consu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Prologue: Contradictions
• The Kindergarten Book
• Contributors
• Assembling
• Entering
• 5 Cartographies
• Afterword
• Afterword: Potentialities.