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Ecologies of Touch : Rethinking Relations in Early Childhood Spaces / by Lindsay Michelle Schofield.

Springer Nature - Springer Education (R0) eBooks 2025 English International Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schofield, Lindsay Michelle.
Series:
Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories, 2523-3416
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Education.
Children.
Education--Philosophy.
Education, Higher.
Educational sociology.
Sex.
Childhood Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Higher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Gender Studies.
Local Subjects:
Childhood Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Higher Education.
Sociology of Education.
Gender Studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Edition:
1st ed. 2025.
Place of Publication:
Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
Summary:
This book explores how literal notions of touching as well as being touched figuratively can be put to work through thinking-with-touch in early childhood and early childhood studies. Specifically, it examines the stains of developmental psychology and Early Childhood (EC) trajectories that haunt such contexts. In order to explore how students’ bodies flow through their studies of early childhood, it also considers how babies and students become-with the Higher Education (HE) classroom, baby-room and worldly materiality; the visible and invisible boundaries that maternal deprivation and attachment theories produce; how developmental theories of psychology are anchored in the policies and practices of EC; and how all that is the discursive, affects–proposing that these explorations have the potential to open bodies towards the precarious landscapes’ pedagogues navigate with HE students and the possibility of new ways of being. This book troubles the 'conventional conceptions for how we understand and research' the 'human child in early childhood contexts' through a deep immersion in feminist thinking and the neologisms of spacetimemattering, mothersick, Bowlb(arbar)ian and (gh)host(ile)(ly).
Contents:
Crossing the threshold introducing the monograph
Assembling
Thinking with touch
Methodology methods ethics
Resisting historical norms and repetitions of early chilhood and early chilhood research
Data threads
So what.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
981-9536-86-3
9789819536863
OCLC:
1573147441

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