Behind-the-Scenes : learning from critical moments through responsive walking methods in a River-Child-Walking project / Vanessa Wintoneak, Mindy Blaise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wintoneak, Vanessa, author.

Blaise, Mindy, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education--Research--Case studies.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

This case study discusses responsive walking methods from a yearlong river-child-walking project situated in early childhood education. Grounded by feminist anti-colonialism, this project reconfigured children's relations with a local river and challenged dominant, extractive methods of discovery. A behind-the-scenes approach is taken in this case study to reveal critical moments in the project when the researchers learned from walking responsively with river and young children. Three responsive walking methods-persisting, refuse-ing, and collecting-are discussed and show how they affected pedagogical and methodological decision making. The case study argues that these responsive walking methods are useful for challenging colonial ways of knowing, being, and doing in place-based research; strengthening humans' relations with places; and addressing messiness and failures while conducting place-based research. The examples of responsive walking methods are situated and therefore are neither replicable nor transferable to other research contexts. However, the behind-the-scenes approach in this case study offers researchers insight into the practicalities of how two researchers took up, experimented, and learned from and with selected critical moments.

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ISBN:

1-5296-9004-8

9781529690040

OCLC:

1428169354