Overview
- Presents posthuman and new materialist theorising of children and their childhoods
- Combines theory and practice in complex and everyday ways using postanthropocentric approaches
- Draws on a vast set of contemporary research and deep rich stories that express childhoods differently
- Explores children and childhoods outside of Euro and Western-centric perspectives
- Positions the question of being a child within the bigger story of the impending implications of the Anthropocene on the planet
Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (CGPPMT)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- children in contemporary society
- children and the everyday
- sociology of childhood
- theorizing children and childhood
- philosophy of childhood
- teacher education and childhood studies
- early and middle childhood
- childhoods in the Pacific, Asia and the global south
- educational philosophy and childhood studies
- children and the Anthropocene
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About the authors
Dr. Marek Tesar is an Associate Professor of childhood studies and earlychildhood education, and the Associate Dean International at the University of Auckland. His current scholarship is in early childhood education in New Zealand as well as in cross-country contexts. His work focuses on educational policy, philosophy, pedagogy, methodology and curriculum, and draws on his background as a qualified teacher as well as his extensive knowledge of international education systems. Marek's research and scholarship is underpinned by notions of a fair and democratic society, in which creative thinking and disciplines shape professional practice, and where the child's voice and participation, particularly in early childhood, are taken seriously.
Dr. Sonja Arndt is a lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne and is the Vice President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). Sonja’s teaching and research are grounded in a long history in early childhood education in New Zealand andinternationally, with a particular focus on the formation of the subject, cultural and professional identity, otherness and relationality, nature and human and more than human relationships with it, and what it means to be other, even to oneself. With her methodological elevation of philosophical thought her aim is to inspire encounters with and through critical theoretical and every day engagements with children and childhoods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies
Authors: Karen Malone, Marek Tesar, Sonja Arndt
Series Title: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8175-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8174-8Published: 06 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8177-9Published: 07 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8175-5Published: 05 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-3408
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3416
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy