Overview
- Develops strategies for enhancing creative capacity and becoming in a posthuman world
- Explores examples of children’s everyday experiences in early childhood settings
- Offers solutions for the enactment of posthumanist principles
Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (CGPPMT)
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Keywords
- Deleuze & Guattari
- Children's working theories
- creativity and creative thinking
- Deluzian concept of affect
- Deluzian concept of refrain
- Deluzian concept of sense
- Deluzian concept of expression
- ethics of early childhood education
- creative capacity as ethics
- ethics and creative capacity
- creative capacity and posthumanism
- early childhood education and creativity
- philosophy of childhood
- materialist theory
- Te Whāriki
- affectensity and habitual relations and meanings
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About the author
Inspired by a study tour to Reggio Emilia, she became fascinated by the potentially limitless creativity of children’s thinking about the world, and convinced of a strong impulse for conforming, narrowing and dismissing of children’s ideas which occurs as a result of an attempted socialization into the logical adult world of classification, categorization and knowledge. Stumbling through the first years of a PhD, it was not until she read Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome that she began to make sense of a process for accessing wide potentialities inherent in matter but disguised by logic and classification. She puzzled (and continues to puzzle) over these ideas as, post-PhD, she researches aspects of early childhood education for dissemination online, while home-schooling her children and wondering how to enact a Deleuzian sensibility for the education of her children, and the life she shares with her children and a multitude of non-human others, including animals, birds, trees, river, wind and sun. She lives and learns as she opens herself up to a life living in concert with child, nature and the material world, and tries to succumb to their influence in a mutual determination of how events unfold in this place we find ourselves.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children and the Ethics of Creativity
Book Subtitle: Rhythmic Affectensities in Early Childhood Education
Authors: Victoria Jane Hargraves
Series Title: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6691-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6690-5Published: 27 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6693-6Published: 27 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6691-2Published: 26 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-3408
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3416
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Learning & Instruction, Research Methods in Education